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Wow. The future of living in a barren rock is getting here fast fast fast

by conartist6 11mo ago

lysace 11mo ago
To be clear: the cause here is decades of mismanagement.
- renewiltord 11mo ago
  Fully expect the grey men to say the same of us when they look at a cooked Earth: yes, to be clear, it was mismanagement
- mingus88 11mo ago
  Have you seen the general state of … well, everything?
- pabs3 11mo ago
  On YouTube or Netflix, look up the Fresh Water episode of the Our Planet documentary series by David Attenborough, fresh water is disappearing all over the place due to our actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Planet https://www.ourplanet.com/ https://www.ourplanet.com/ https://www.ourplanet.com/en/explore/fresh-water/ https://www.ourplanet.com/en/explore/fresh-water/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DU85qLfJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DU85qLfJQ
  - lysace 11mo ago
    You didn't even bother to do the most basic amount of research on the specific situation before posting those links, did you? I don't understand how you think what is entially spam will bolster your cause. It's just plain rude. But somehow it's common, even with normally intelligent people like you. Do think a few extra steps, next time, please.
spwa4 11mo ago
Just so we're clear: fresh water is shifting location ... when it comes to the total available, it's increasing. There are many more locations were humans can now live where they couldn't a century ago, not less. The issue is not that we can't live anywhere. The earth is greener than before. The issue is that there are a small number of locations where humans can't live anymore, especially not without good water management. Obviously, people don't want to or can't leave, and some of the locations that didn't use to, but now really do require proper management have a LOT of people. Teheran has more water than a century ago. But more does not mean infinite.
- conartist6 11mo ago
  Source on this info?
  - spwa4 11mo ago
    The entire working mechanism of climate change is increased water in the atmosphere. That's why it's getting warmer. CO2 and other gases only accelerate that process a little bit (but as we're at the end of the warming cycle, "a little bit" should be interpreted as accelerating warming by a little bit, if you count the number of years it brings warming forward, that's a lot. Probably a millennium, maybe more). Obviously it also makes things warmer and generally wetter, thereby making very large areas livable that weren't livable before. The entire inside of India used to be desert. That desert did not just reduce in size, it split in three pieces and two of them shrunk to zero, and even the third is turning green. The Sahara too is less than half the size it used to be. https://theweek.com/environment/sahara-desert-turning-green https://theweek.com/environment/sahara-desert-turning-green Also, large regions closer to the poles are becoming warmer ... and that means livable. And yes, elsewhere deserts are becoming worse, for instance in Spain. It doesn't really matter though, as humans are not exactly short on space, and this means we'll need to move large populations in the next century.
  - more_corn 11mo ago
    The news? You could search for things like “scientists show how climate change is leading to an increase in extreme weather”

Wow. The future of living in a barren rock is getting here fast fast fast

lysace 11mo ago

To be clear: the cause here is decades of mismanagement.

renewiltord 11mo ago
Fully expect the grey men to say the same of us when they look at a cooked Earth: yes, to be clear, it was mismanagement
mingus88 11mo ago
Have you seen the general state of … well, everything?
pabs3 11mo ago
On YouTube or Netflix, look up the Fresh Water episode of the Our Planet documentary series by David Attenborough, fresh water is disappearing all over the place due to our actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Planet https://www.ourplanet.com/ https://www.ourplanet.com/ https://www.ourplanet.com/en/explore/fresh-water/ https://www.ourplanet.com/en/explore/fresh-water/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DU85qLfJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DU85qLfJQ
- lysace 11mo ago
  You didn't even bother to do the most basic amount of research on the specific situation before posting those links, did you? I don't understand how you think what is entially spam will bolster your cause. It's just plain rude. But somehow it's common, even with normally intelligent people like you. Do think a few extra steps, next time, please.

spwa4 11mo ago

Just so we're clear: fresh water is shifting location ... when it comes to the total available, it's increasing. There are many more locations were humans can now live where they couldn't a century ago, not less. The issue is not that we can't live anywhere. The earth is greener than before. The issue is that there are a small number of locations where humans can't live anymore, especially not without good water management. Obviously, people don't want to or can't leave, and some of the locations that didn't use to, but now really do require proper management have a LOT of people. Teheran has more water than a century ago. But more does not mean infinite.

conartist6 11mo ago
Source on this info?
- spwa4 11mo ago
  The entire working mechanism of climate change is increased water in the atmosphere. That's why it's getting warmer. CO2 and other gases only accelerate that process a little bit (but as we're at the end of the warming cycle, "a little bit" should be interpreted as accelerating warming by a little bit, if you count the number of years it brings warming forward, that's a lot. Probably a millennium, maybe more). Obviously it also makes things warmer and generally wetter, thereby making very large areas livable that weren't livable before. The entire inside of India used to be desert. That desert did not just reduce in size, it split in three pieces and two of them shrunk to zero, and even the third is turning green. The Sahara too is less than half the size it used to be. https://theweek.com/environment/sahara-desert-turning-green https://theweek.com/environment/sahara-desert-turning-green Also, large regions closer to the poles are becoming warmer ... and that means livable. And yes, elsewhere deserts are becoming worse, for instance in Spain. It doesn't really matter though, as humans are not exactly short on space, and this means we'll need to move large populations in the next century.
- more_corn 11mo ago
  The news? You could search for things like “scientists show how climate change is leading to an increase in extreme weather”