25 Years of Growth in Las Vegas from NASA.

Looking at this animation of growth (5 year intervals since 1984) it isn’t hard to imagine a city as a type of cancer on the Earth. It grows, consumes, pollutes, and creates waste. I really want to expand on this idea but I have a few papers I’m supposed to writing right now so I’ll come back to this.

Check out Lake Mead to the right. Note how much it drops as the city grows. That’s pretty shocking.