The last one to leave the Southwest, please turn out the lights

Between the effects of the subprime crisis, repeatedly blogged about here, on the Southwest’s major cities (Las Vegas foreclosures up more than 70 percent), and the drought-like weather of the 1950s becoming the new norm, I’d say the Desertlands will soon be facing a long-overdue population collapse.

Sooner or later, even modern American homo sapiens will learn he has to learn one simple lesson, first taught in ancient Sumeria 5,000 years ago, and retaught many times since:

The desert always wins.