This column, if you can believe, comes from a place of optimism.
I read a story recently in “The New York Times” that scared the hell out of me. (Some readers may want to click away just hearing the source. I ask you to stick around with an open mind.) Utah’s Great Salt Lake has entered a critical stage. In the space of just a generation, it shrank by two-thirds. I can wrap my head around 10, 15, even 25% fluctuations over decades. That makes sense to me. I find it bonkers that a lake — an entire late — could shrink in 30 years to under 1,000 square miles of surface area from 3,300. Clearly, some regional equilibrium has tilted.