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I live in Arizona. Looks like Arizona and much of California is in the bad red zone. But, we are talking 2100, and, my 71st birthday is this year. BTW, the ani

I live in Arizona. Looks like Arizona and much of California is in the bad red zone. But, we are talking 2100, and, my 71st birthday is this year. BTW, the animation was fine on an iPad Pro.

Ancalagon 5y ago
Its mainly a water security issue, which I think with de-sal plants, rationing, and careful preservation of resources during surplus years would make the issue solvable in the long run for urban/suburban dwellers. Farming, however, will need to move. There was an article a while back talking about this, usually these water insecurity issues in the southwest are attributable to the unsustainable farming practices that go on here (because the year round sun and temperatures make farming convenient-despite lack of rainfall).
- notch656a 5y ago
  Precisely. Agriculture uses something like 74% of the water supply in Arizona. 'Unable to grow desert cabbage in 2100' isn't as catchy a headline, however.
- czbond 5y ago
  Piggybacking your comment - I have been looking into personal water recycling systems as I live in the U.S. West that already has water issues due to growth. Example (not endorsement): https://www.hydraloop.com https://www.hydraloop.com
wongarsu 5y ago
Much of California is in the red zone not only for the year 2100 but also for the present, mostly due to water stress. But with enough will industrial nations can largely spend their way out of all of these problems. Water can be brought from far away or desalinated from the ocean (both happen in California), heat can be fought off by being indoors with AC, sea level rise can be resisted with dikes, levees and pumps. But a lot of places in Africa and Asia won't have the money to do that.
kennywinker 5y ago
We've known about global warming since the 1970s, when you were in your 20s. This situation is due to you, and your generation's inaction over the past 50 years. I'm happy you can shrug it off as an "I'll be gone by the time this is an issue" problem, but I hope none of your descendants ever see this comment.
- School-Cotton 5y ago
  People in their 20s now are fucking this up just as badly as they were in the 1970s. It's everyone's fault.
  - kennywinker 5y ago
    It'll be a long time before people who are in their 20s now have the kind of power that the boomers had and continue to have. Both in terms of personal wealth and consumption choices, in terms of political power (the average age in the senate is currently 64), and corporate power (the average CEO is 58). You can only hold people accountable for the things that they could have done. For someone in their early 70s that's about 26 times voting for federal representatives. For someone in their early 20s that's about 2 times. To say those two groups bear any kind of equal responsibility is just wrong.

I live in Arizona. Looks like Arizona and much of California is in the bad red zone. But, we are talking 2100, and, my 71st birthday is this year. BTW, the animation was fine on an iPad Pro.

Ancalagon 5y ago

Its mainly a water security issue, which I think with de-sal plants, rationing, and careful preservation of resources during surplus years would make the issue solvable in the long run for urban/suburban dwellers. Farming, however, will need to move. There was an article a while back talking about this, usually these water insecurity issues in the southwest are attributable to the unsustainable farming practices that go on here (because the year round sun and temperatures make farming convenient-despite lack of rainfall).

notch656a 5y ago
Precisely. Agriculture uses something like 74% of the water supply in Arizona. 'Unable to grow desert cabbage in 2100' isn't as catchy a headline, however.
czbond 5y ago
Piggybacking your comment - I have been looking into personal water recycling systems as I live in the U.S. West that already has water issues due to growth. Example (not endorsement): https://www.hydraloop.com https://www.hydraloop.com

wongarsu 5y ago

Much of California is in the red zone not only for the year 2100 but also for the present, mostly due to water stress. But with enough will industrial nations can largely spend their way out of all of these problems. Water can be brought from far away or desalinated from the ocean (both happen in California), heat can be fought off by being indoors with AC, sea level rise can be resisted with dikes, levees and pumps. But a lot of places in Africa and Asia won't have the money to do that.

kennywinker 5y ago

We've known about global warming since the 1970s, when you were in your 20s. This situation is due to you, and your generation's inaction over the past 50 years. I'm happy you can shrug it off as an "I'll be gone by the time this is an issue" problem, but I hope none of your descendants ever see this comment.

School-Cotton 5y ago
People in their 20s now are fucking this up just as badly as they were in the 1970s. It's everyone's fault.
- kennywinker 5y ago
  It'll be a long time before people who are in their 20s now have the kind of power that the boomers had and continue to have. Both in terms of personal wealth and consumption choices, in terms of political power (the average age in the senate is currently 64), and corporate power (the average CEO is 58). You can only hold people accountable for the things that they could have done. For someone in their early 70s that's about 26 times voting for federal representatives. For someone in their early 20s that's about 2 times. To say those two groups bear any kind of equal responsibility is just wrong.