Everybody should get ready to see a lot of “… of the century” with storms, heat waves, droughts, etc.
We knew this was coming for decades, we knew of the underlying problem for well over a century and still there are dipshits out there saying it’s aaaalll fake from the scientific order who apparently are all billionaires somehow or something?
Anyway, so we didn’t do shit about it so that the 0.1% could gather an godunholy amount of monies and now we’re here.
For the anecdote, and to pile on the testimonies saying it’s also happening in their corner of the world :
we’re also running out of water in Mayotte (Mozambique Channel). They’re building a new desalination plant right now, but the impact studies say it’s likely going to kill the nearby mangrove and coral reef (which is already rapidly shrinking). Rainy season has been diminishing for the past decade and the island is overpopulated with refugees from Comoros, which is essentially a dictatorship. They live in slums which the french government regularly razes, when cyclones don’t take care of it. Desalination is a good solution all in all, but it requires ungodly amounts of power, which we generate… with a petrol generator. Because of fucking course we do
Drought of the century they say. A week after the storm of the century in Jamaica. There’s a lot of the century these days.
It seems centuries are getting shorter and shorter each year.
What a century, huh?
Captain, we are just about to pass the first quarter
This year’s drought of the century.
Don’t trust the “of the century” headlines. The news loves to get people hyped. Mom used to always say, “The news says it’s the hottest/coldest day of the year!” Of course it is, we’re advancing into summer/winter.
We had spotty planetary telecom 100-years ago and none 200-years ago. All we can say with certainty is that global temps are rising. Everything after that is an educated guess.
For example, my town broke the all-time record for snow last year, in Florida. “Snow of the century”? Probably? Global warming? Probably? (I’m putting that last down to global warming as I doubt the polar vortex was taking a beating like that in the past, but no one can be 100%.)
When you look globally you can expect a once a century thing about monthly. That’s just the law of large numbers.
If the line is trending higher all the time, that’s going to happen often.
10 years ago I met a hydrologist from Tehran. He told me aquifer depletion was a looming disaster then, and the government wouldn’t face it.
Hardly unique to Tehran. Utah is facing the same crisis right now. Their answer has been to privatize harder.
It’s the opposite here (Denmark), we have clean drinking water in the entire country, but I’ve been hearing about efforts to reduce water consumption and preserving the natural resources for instance regulating agriculture as far back as I can remember, which is back to the 70’s.
Our governments have been on top of this all the way through (mostly the left), and water is very cheap, so we have a tax on water to prevent people from using it mindlessly.As a great grand child of a danish immigrant, I rather curse my ancestors for leaving.
What’s it like living there? I’ve always wanted to become a citizen there. Love Danish music, people, culture, history, and danish danish
That’s very hard to make a short response to. I like it here, and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
I find myself privileged to live here, although other places can have advantages in better climate, cheaper high quality food, and warmer personalities.
But here people are more “real” than most places, we don’t do fake praising or other fake behavior as much as most cultures. I like that, but for foreigners it can be difficult.As a non-Danish, I’d love to know more about what you love about Denmark.
I have only fragments of knowledge about its medieval history, and in music, I know only of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond.
My city is running out of water as well. Their bright idea was just to give it away for free to Big Industry. Also water bills are going up. So that’s fun.
Mormons are insane.
Most Christian groups are, but yes…Mormons are extra insane.
Religion is just a part of it.
Ranchers, golfers, and data centers are at the heart of this thing. Plenty of these guys are fully secularized
Turn it off!
There’s many cities like this. I remember reading about Mexico City being on a similar path. Ground water keeps sinking rapidly so they keep digging until some day they won’t be able to and it’s all fucked.
Jakarta is quite literally sinking into the sea. The government’s solution was to move the capital to a new island
I don’t think that’s related to water use though, is it? Isn’t it just a weight of the city thing?
The aquifer has been totally drained by wildcat wells since there is almost zero access to running water in Jakarta. The draining of the aquifer has resulted in the rapid sinking of the city
With a number of cities, it’s because they pump out the water below the city aquifer. The more they pump out, the lower they sink.
I believe I read about that in Chinese cities as well, maybe Shanghai?
The water takes up space in the soils and when it’s pumped out, the soil settles and can never be refilled with water again. Sorta feels like another way humans are going to need to engineer out existence in even bigger ways.
Same for mexico city.
So what’s the plan, what happens next?
Probably more water giveaways to rich people, that seems to be the go-to move.
Increased instability.
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Rapid building of water reclamation and desalination. Import water for now. All expensive options compared to just pumping out of the ground.
desalination plants would take a quite longer to build, maybe water reclamation is thier best choice.
I volunteer my urine to slake their thirst.
Collapse.
Drinking pee.
Holy shit. Can you say “regime change”? I hope Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a good escape plan.
How would a massive political upheaval make it rain? Seems more a matter of climate change than regime change.
Because the regime doesn’t value joint social programs and backups in general. Yes a drought caused it, but it exposes a lot of the issues underneath. When a population is starving they get way more testy, and all of the issues bubbling right under the surface could explode out.
The solution is obviously to build more nukes.
They said that two months ago already. It would run out in September. First half of October latest.
God forbid people ration their supplies and try to last
I was just wondering that they managed to last that long. The mid October deadline was already meant with heavy rationing.
On the other hand, I have not heard of any kind of max exodus from that city. Which would be the sensible thing when the taps run dry.
Can’t do that. It’s evil Communism
