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Interesting the most alarmed are also the ones who own beach property:
- John Kerry spent $11.75 million in 2017 for a sprawling estate on the beach in Martha’s Vineyard. The property includes more than 18 acres of land on which his seven-bedroom home sits, overlooking the Vineyard Sound
- Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a house in secluded Montecito to their real estate holdings. The couple spent $8,875,000 on a gated ocean-view villa on 1 1/2 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, according to real estate sources familiar with the deal.
- Michelle and the former president, Barack Obama, purchased an ocean-front compound in Martha's Vineyard in 2020 for $11.75 million – and have since enjoyed the property and its proximity to the iconic Massachusetts coastline.
- In the summer of 2017, the Bidens bought a house on the Delaware Shore for $2.7 million. Overlooking Cape Henlopen State Park and just a couple blocks from the beach, the three-story home has six bedrooms, expansive porches, views of the Atlantic Ocean, and a backyard built for entertaining, with an outdoor kitchen, BBQ, and fireplace.

- Not long after his failed 2008 presidential bid, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee bought a beachfront plot in the Florida Panhandle and built a three-story, 10,000-square-foot mansion, with six bedrooms, seven-and-a-half bathrooms, and a pool.
- In 1985, Donald Trump, primarily a businessman and real estate investor at the time, acquired Mar-a-Lago and used it as a residence. In 1994 he converted it into the Mar-a-Lago Club, a members-only club with guest rooms, a spa, and other hotel-style amenities.

I always wanted to get into planting trees for carbon credits, especially here in The Villages. If we all got together we could probably earn some carbon credits we could sell!

But those in the know know - climate change is yesterday's news.
The next crisis is a big shortage of fresh water. Several states have limits on collecting your own rainwater:

- Colorado: The only state where rainwater harvesting is illegal, except for two rain barrels with a capacity of up to 110 gallons
- Utah: You can collect up to 2,500 gallons of rainwater from your property, but you need a permit to set up a rainwater harvesting system
- Kansas and North Dakota: May require a permit to harvest rainwater
- California: The Rainwater Capture Act of 2012 allows homeowners, property owners, government agencies, and business owners to harvest rainwater as long as it’s for approved purposes.
- Georgia: Rainwater is tightly regulated by the Department of Natural Resources and must only be applied for outdoor use.

Arizona, Utah, Colorado and California are fighting over fresh water from the Colorado River. What's weird is California has an almost unlimited source of fresh water to the west of it, just needs filtering and treatment. Other countries do it. But apparently California, with all their high tech gadgets and brainpower, can't figure it out.