Europe in Crisis

[Rick Fox at UNC]

I heard it rained heavily in europe this week, was so disappointed..was wishing they'd hit a drought of biblical proportions

Why?

Where do you live?

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

Europe?

Thats karma for Eu-raping the globe.

You live in the states?

 

[EA]

a four day blackout???? The food spoilage would be insane

So much food wastage. Gonna be living off tinned food like a prisoner of war if it actually happens.

 

[Unknown Poster]

I know it's fukk Europe and all of that, but climate change is going to devastate the African continent. And TLR doesn't want to discuss it.

 

[Unknown Poster]

You live in the states?

Yeah I live in America, born and raised, oh and fukk these American crackers too.

 

[Chip Skylark]

It’s honestly too late to do anything about climate change. Unless they can create a less expensive way to convert salt water into drinking water a lot of the world is going to be assed out

 

[loyola llothta]

Euro Drops Below 2022 Low to Mark Last Seen Two Decades Ago(99cent)​

 

[Dave24]

Subbed

 

[Kings County]

The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows racism has no boundaries

The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows racism has no boundaries as Ukrainian refugees of African descent are being turned away at border crossings in favor of white Ukrainians.

www.brookings.edu

‘Pushed back because we’re Black’: Africans stranded at Ukraine-Poland border

Nigeria and South Africa have expressed alarm at reports that their nationals are being stopped from leaving war-torn Ukraine. At Lviv train station, in western Ukraine, FRANCE 24 met several African…

www.france24.com

good luck cacs theres your karma

 

[Chrishaune]

It’s over globally.

Boomers and Gen X didn’t take climate change seriously when they had 30 years to do so.

They’ve now FAILED EVERYONE who has followed.

The planet will be inhospitable by 2090.

so ignorant.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Read the pertinent. "You know where they will come for water..."

Brothers need to be mentally prepared for what's to come.

You see it

 

[Diondon]

shyt, I thought this was about the economy
but yeah, this is bad

 

[CP3.]

It’s fukked here in Europe. The government have already told us here in the U.K. to expect a 4 day blackout in January. With the way things are going, those 4 days of no power in the middle of winter might play out like The Purge.

The scenario is “not something we expect to happen,” the government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said in a statement. “Households, businesses and industry can be confident they will get the electricity and gas they need.”

 

[Wildhundreds]

It’s over globally.

Boomers and Gen X didn’t take climate change seriously when they had 30 years to do so.

They’ve now FAILED EVERYONE who has followed.

The planet will be inhospitable by 2090.

Say white people didn't take climate change seriously.

 

[Yehuda]

LOIREAUXENCE, France, Aug 17 (Reuters) - France's river Loire, famous for the hundreds of castles gracing its shores, is a shallow river at the best of times, but this year even its flat-bottom tourist barges can barely navigate waters greatly reduced by a record drought.

Even some 100 kilometers from where the Loire empties into the Atlantic Ocean, sand banks now stretch as far as the eye can see, large islands connect to the shore and in places people can practically walk from one side of the river to the other.

The Loire valley - a UNESCO World Heritage site famed for majestic chateaux such as Chambord, Chenonceau and Azay-le-Rideau - has suffered historically low water levels before, but this year's drought should be a wake-up call, said Eric Sauquet.

"The Loire's tributaries are completely dried up. It is unprecedented," said Sauquet, who is head of hydrology at France's National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE).

"We have to worry about the Loire," he added.

For river fish, the low water levels are disastrous. The shallow water loses oxygen as it heats up and makes them easy prey for herons and other predators.

"Fish need water to live, cool water. When water levels get this low, their environment shrinks and they get trapped in puddles," Sauquet said.

NUCLEAR CHALLENGE​

River flow is at about 40 cubic metres per second - less than a twentieth of average annual levels. It would be even lower if authorities did not release water from dams at Naussac and Villerest, built in the 1980s partly to guarantee cooling water supply to four nuclear plants built along the river.

The four plants - at Belleville, Chinon, Dampierre and Saint-Laurent - have a combined capacity of 11.6 gigawatts, accounting for nearly a fifth of French electricity production.

With several EDF plants already out of action for technical reasons and others operating at reduced capacity because of low river waters, closing one or more of the Loire plants could push power prices higher Europe-wide. read more

Tourists and local residents marvelled but also fretted over the river's enormous exposed sand banks.

"Even in 1976, the water was never as low as this," said longtime riverside resident Brigitte Gabory Defois.

Yet, days after major wildfires hit France, torrential rain flooded parts of the Paris metro and storms lashed southern France, while in some villages in the south, water was brought by trucks as natural springs have run dry. read more

"Climate change is underway, it's undeniable... All users will have to re-think their behaviour with respect to water resources," Sauquet said.

France's river Loire sets new lows as drought dries up its tributaries