Secure Da Bag
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So you're gonna drain all the freshwater and start a war in the process?
Its crazy how fast Lake Mead is losing water - A Slow Disaster Unfolding
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So you're gonna drain all the freshwater and start a war in the process?
Gritsngravy
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Outside of northern Oregon and Washington you mean. Southern Oregon has been fukked recently too, to the point where there's damn near water terrorists now.
Invoking past standoffs and talking about force, water activists muster in Southern Oregon
Farmers in the Klamath Basin say the federal government is withholding water that belongs to them.
www.redding.com
Irrigators say they plan to force open Klamath headgates and release water
A pair of Klamath Project irrigators and their supporters say they intend to break into federal property and open the controls that are preventing water from Upper Klamath Lake from going to farms and ranches.
www.opb.org
Tensions escalate in Klamath Falls as southern Oregon water crisis deepens
“There just isn't enough water to go around. There’s not enough to make any one entity whole.”
www.oregonlive.com
Racism, drought and history: Young Native Americans fight back as water disappears
Black Lives Matter has emboldened a younger generation of the Klamath Tribes, who are now speaking out on their treatment on the parched Oregon-California border.
www.latimes.com
With modern reverse osmosis desalination plants, they use a ton of energy and create a ton of wastewater. Scaling that up is just hard, besides all the new plants we'd really be taxing our energy production. It's possible the tech will improve over time though.
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Flywin Lannister
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Imagine being an American, and knowing the same Americans who voted for Trump and for politicians who are pro-guns (even after schools get shot up) just because it fills their pockets..... are the ones who need to vote to save your country.
WTF
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Covered this earlier. You could build the pipelines but the shear volume necessary would be 100x pipelines. And it's way too expensive - with an oil pipeline you can recover the cost cause oil is profitable, but with water you'd need to spend billions in start-up costs and then pumping the water alone would increase your water bill by 500%. Not to mention massive environmental issues of storing all that water to send down the pipeline, all the environmental issues of building hundreds of pipelines, and the fact that you'd end up depleting water wherever you took it from too.
And that's before we even get into the logistics of having the pipeline go all the way over the Rocky Mountains.
Breh, if you're utterly and totaling uninformed on an issue, why speak as if you know what you're talking about? Why not read a book, or listen to people who have actually educated themselves, and learn something?
Industry right now is taxing the planet FAR higher than it was in the 1800s, it's not even close. Plus the damage is cumulative - it's not like the shyt they fukked up in the 1800s all just got better, the impact in many issues has been progressive. And WTF does random apocalypse cults have to do with actual reasoned science regarding our impacts?
p.s. - if you get your information on environmental and climate issues solely from profit-based news media, and have no scientific or environmental sources, seriously need to back up and start fixing the problem there. Thinking the "news media" is responsible for climate and ecological worries is ridiculous.
UpAndComing
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Stop quoting me fakkit
Elim Garak
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We had a fair warning 20 years ago and people laughed.
Elim Garak
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Oh the Earth knows how to heal itself it's humanity I would worry about.
Ethnic Vagina Finder
The Great Paper Chaser
So many technological advances over the decades, yet none that enables man to use desalinization of salt water cheaply and with greater speed.
This Seattle summer looks like it won't begin until after July 4th and I'm okay with that.
I doubt we'll get 14 days of 80+degree weather...we damn sure ain't gonna hit 90degree this summer
BunchePark
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Secure Da Bag
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Secure Da Bag
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Honestly I cannot say which two states are better in terms of how they'll be impacted. I think every state will be impacted in some way. And I think the midwest (which includes MI and WI) will be vulnerable to severe weather events and an influx of displaced people from other regions of the country. It may be some time before that happens (if it happens) but its good to plant your roots now to prepare you and your family.