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by PaulDavisThe1st 1320 days ago
Do you mean "western" as in "Western USA" or as in "the West, i.e USA, Europe etc" ?

Food production independence absolutely makes sense. Growing food in a desert based on ignorant and overblown ideas from the 1940s about the impact of damming a couple of rivers and distributing the water ... probably not so much.