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Submitted by Nauman129 on March 18, 2007
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Montana Compared and Contrasted Against the Klamath Basin
There are many environmental issues that affect the world today and they range from deforestation to water shortage to dealing with global warming. These pressing issues can affect the entire world or can be specialized in a specific area. Two specialized cases, both seen in the United States, go on to affect not only humans but the surrounding ecosystems as well; however, they also differ in many ways and are completely unique case-studies. One of the cases deals with the state of Montana whose "problems today include almost all of the dozen types of problems that have undermined pre-industrial societies in the past" (Diamond, 35). The other case is located near awe-striking Mt. Shasta in the state of California in an area known as the upper Klamath basin; the problem in this area deals with "fish vs. farmers": "The basic problem is that there is not enough water for all the uses which have strong constituencies" in an area that receives only but 14 inches of rain per year on average (Whiteley, 1). Both these cases share similarities and differences.
To start off, as mentioned before, the basic problem in the Klamath Basin is that there simply isn't a sustainable water supply to meet all the needs along the basin to be shared by both human civilization, particularly farmers, and the naturally occurring ecosystem composed of fish, heron, and other species who have not only been deemed endangered but are also revered by the local Native American tribes. The farmers argue that they should have an unrestricted share of the water because without such an entity, they cannot grow any crops which in turn would affect those who eat the produce and would also in turn affect the farmers themselves seeing how they would be unable to produce any income and allow for their families to live on. (This argument can also be seen in the Montana case-study and will be mentioned later on). Although the farmers...
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