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To me it seems the way we are going, we are actively helping climate change to make the earth more dry. We are going to have less and less water provided by nat
by lukaslalinsky 4y ago
To me it seems the way we are going, we are actively helping climate change to make the earth more dry. We are going to have less and less water provided by natural means, and at the same time, through the industrial agriculture we are making sure the little water we get escapes the soil as quickly as possible.
I live in Slovakia, water scarcity was not even a hypothetical possibility for most people in the past.
And now we are dealing with floods and (more recently) draughts. Our soil can basically no longer hold water. Agricultural fields are so compacted, there are layers which are essentially waterproof. During the last decades, we built all kinds of drainage and flood management systems to send any water away as quickly as possibly.
And now we are starting to have super dry summers. It will be an interesting thing to watch, because there things are not going to be reversed quickly, if at all.