Water Conservation as a Druid Dichotomy

Which would yall rather, nice green plants or pea gravel? Obviously, this dichotomy separates the nature lover from the nature indifferent. Why? Easy money. Green plants sustain life as most of us know it on this plane of this tiny sphere that many call Earth. Thus green plants are an important component of nature and appreciated by the nature lover. Pea gravel is more modest with its accomplishments. Yet many, the nature indifferent, prefer more pea gravel and less green plants. That’s possibly because pea gravel, compared to green plants, may be lower maintenance, maybe. Plus, you don’t need to water pea gravel.

Intuitively, one might assume that a space occupied by nice green plants might be cooler than a space of equal area occupied exclusively by pea gravel. One might also expect that pea gravel spread out on the surface of the planet, to the exclusion of green plants, might make the planet hotter. But who really knows? Maybe Earth, or a similar planet finding itself in Earth-like circumstances, yet covered with pea gravel, would be nice and cool. The science is still out on that one. Right?

Many fear that some day soon we may run so low on water that some may have to do without. Like the best example of this fear is, The little children may not have water to flush with. Mercy! Ultimately, the low or no water fear brings on behaviors like xeroscaping with pea gravel, producing landscapes in which people, to the exclusion of all else, get all the water.

So given all this, what is the Druid’s motivation to conserve water. Easy money. The limiting factor for the Druid is the cost of the water. And the Druid, as nature lover, will spend money on water so that the green plants associated with the Druid shall have plenty to drink and not die of thirst. Course, if the climate changes toward way hotter and drier, that Druid needs to move somewhere else, to assure continued access to green plants.

The nature indifferent motivation prioritizes conservation with a view to sharing out the water with all the people. Like the little children getting to flush are the top priority. Then come the migrants who forgot to bring their own water. Yea verily, those migrants include the corporations that need plenty of water. The nature indifferent are plenty happy to conserve water so the in migrating corporations can use more water at a cheaper rate. Then there are the multitudes of rich migrants, environmental refugees fleeing no telling what awful conditions elsewhere, bravely seeking out a flipped mansion next door to a lush golf course. Goodness! Everyone should certainly conserve water so the rich migrants shall have plenty.

In summary, everyone should provide all the water they can afford to the thirsty green plants instead of conserving water for other people. Those green plants would like to take care of people, but only if we take care of them first