How can something...something so beautiful, be destroyed, for something so unrealistic? These beautiful places, these gorgeous, wonderful places...and all the life within them, are dying. Would you want a lovely place like this destroyed?
No. I thought not.
We look at these cities we've built, and most people have been to Las Vegas, New York City, Las Angele's, Miami Beach, but.....have any of them been to a place like this?
I'd love to go to this place. Wouldn't you? Or would you rather go to some place...different. Picture this.
You are wanting to go on a great family vacation. You have the materialistic vacation in mind. You're ready for a massage on the beach in Florida, you want the cruise line and the fancy dinner, you want to shop, see a movie...or two....and go for a few thrill rides in the giant theme park across from your hotel room. Then, in the evening, you'll kick back in the pool and float around. After coming back in, snacking on some cookies and throwing the plastic packaging away, you sit down, watch a little TV, and go back down at 12:00 am to enjoy the jets in the hot tub. Your spouse, however, wants to take you and the kids to Yosemite, California, for a camping trip. No massage, no cruise line, no fancy dinner, no shops, no movies, no thrill rides, no hotel room, no pool, and no jets in a hot tub (although there are currents in the river). You are reluctant, and have no camping experience whatsoever. You are envisioning bugs in your sleeping bag, sandwiches for every meal, and sweat...lots and lots of perspiration. YUCK!!!!! But you go with them, and when you get to Yosemite, you realize how beautiful a place it is. Nature. 
It was the best vacation you ever took. Who could trade this....
It was the best vacation you ever took. Who could trade this....For this?
Lake Mead above, Las Vegas below. No, Lake Mead isn't gone, but this is a perfect example of materialization. Las Vegas is in the middle of the desert. That's why it can get as hot as 120 degrees and hotter. If it wasn't for Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam, the American gambling and casino hotspot would not exist.
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