The pipeline is our lifeline

 The main problem facing wildlife sustainability is loss of natural habitat. Humans have monopolised wilderness that was once the sole domain of other animal species. Homo sapiens, because of their inventiveness and adaptability, can live just about anywhere on the planet while many other animal species cannot adapt so readily to new environmental surroundings.These threatened species are being forced out to the very edges of their habitat because of human encroachment. As animals, it is a natural progression to dominate other species by claiming territory as their own as we have done ruthlessly over the last few thousand years. We are the one species who can reason, so what can we do to save wildlife from further destruction? There are vast tracts of land around the globe that are uninhabitable because of the lack of water. Why can’t we pump runoff into these areas and create an oasis where threatened wildlife can live, and procreate. Does it sound so incredulous when we can lay down thousands of kilometres of oil and natural gas pipeline? We have the technical knowhow to harness water, both artesian and surface runoff, for irrigation. We will eventually need to irrigate deserts for our own benefit and survival as our population explodes, so why not start now? We don’t necessarily require huge tracts of arid land to create new self-sustainable wilderness areas. Plant fruit trees in the backyard, and watch wildlife return virtually overnight. We can create an oasis on our properties simply because we have water delivered by pipeline to our homes from reservoirs and dams located a great distance away. We just need to scale up the operation.