Scene: Las Vegas Valley, Nevada. A desert.

Las Vegas developer: We need more family entertainment! Therefore it is imperative that we BUILD AN $18 MILLION WATER PARK! There is literally no other possible solution.

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Citizens of Vegas: But the latest assessment of the declining water level in Lake Mead, from which Vegas gets its drinking water, suggests we could run out of drinking water in less than three years.

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Developer: Can you put a price on quality time? Why do treehuggers hate the American family? This war on the family is so typical of your anti-natalist agenda.

Exeunt.