Tim Gasperak
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨Watching the fallout from the recent storm and thinking about how every major climate crisis is also an infant feeding crisis, a maternal health crisis, a structural racism amplification crisis, an infectious disease crisis, a food security crisis, a no-sick leave crisis, a housing shortage crisis, etc, etc, etc....and how on the other hand every climate crisis avoided (by mitigation and by better planning and more equity) avoids all these ripples of suffering.
AstroZu@bethsawin Well said.
Doug BostromThis is why I frown when people tut-tut at employment of the term "catastrophic anthropogenic global warming," CAGW being coopted as an insult by fake skeptics.
Catastrophe operates over a vast range of scale. A smallholder in Pakistan or sub-Saharan Africa faces catastrophe when climate change eliminates subsistence.
antipode77Another climate change impact. Lack of 'ground water'.
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-depletion-groundwater-california-central-valley.html
In many parts of the U.S. and other countries, groundwater remains poorly managed or entirely unmanaged. As wells continue to draw down water levels, the declines in water levels remain largely unseen and underappreciated.
"The pace and scale of its disappearance vastly exceed what can be replaced by any management scheme," Famiglietti said.
Depletion of groundwater is accelerating in California's Central Valley, study finds
Scientists have discovered that the pace of groundwater depletion in California's Central Valley has accelerated dramatically during the drought as heavy agricultural pumping has drawn down aquifer levels to new lows and now threatens to devastate the underground water reserves.