One problem with building a pipeline from the Mississippi (assuming that one could build a pipeline big enough) to the west coast is that eventually the Mississippi would be like the Colorado river. The Colorado has been reduced dramatically before it hits the Pacific Ocean for decades now. (Google Colorado River Delta).
Even if we could do this, it would have no effect on the wildfires. Maybe Joni Mitchell was right -
They took all the trees
Put ‘‘em in a tree museum
And they charged all the people an arm and a just to see ‘em
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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