The Ruling Class’s Ongoing Destruction of Nature in Colorado, a Sign of the Times

Bar sign, Durango, Colorado. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

On April 21 managing engineers at Denver Water announced they were going to drain Antero Reservoir, the first water body in that public agency’s chain of reservoirs comprising its massive mountain storage system. The system serves about 1.5 million customers in the Denver area and is the state’s largest domestic water purveyor.

But numbers and system descriptions are merely Gradgrindian fact mongering. What is most important...