Midwestern droughts have reduced the flow of the Mississippi. Groundwater depletion has caused coastal land to sink below sea level. Sea-temperature increases raised the sea level in the Gulf. The result: rising ocean waters are out-competing the Mississippi flow, pushing up the riverbed, and will reach New Orleans’ water treatment plant. The city’s water supply will be undrinkable, while the salt leaches poisons out of lead pipes. They have one month.
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Now imagine having to replace the water delivery system of every major coastal city around the globe over the next 10 years.
@waldoj so much of this water shortage is exponentially compounded by cooling data centers for AI and blockchain.
Not only do they burn insane amounts of fuel. They destroy aquifers.
They want to blame it on our internet use, but it is their theft of our data and surveillance capitalism, and corporate ponzi schemes and all it's waste that is causing it.
It's for stuff no one wanted but the oligarchs wanting total domination over the whole world, damn the cost.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/25/data-centers-drought-water-use/
@GatekeepKen @waldoj “Government officials at all levels have expressed the same message: There’s no need to panic.” - this happens every so often and once this far in 1988. Alarmist reporting like this sucks for the cause when it’s so easily refutable.
That's silly thinking we're not in different times. If you think man can overpower Mother Nature. I have a city to sell you that used to have a great Mardi Gras.
@waldoj Ah, the unexpected joys of continually dredging the lower Mississippi so the oceangoing ships can make it up to the port of New Orleans. The riverbed has been dredged to about 30(?) feet below ocean level, so of course the ocean will creep in at the slightest provocation.
*sigh*
It's long past time for a St Bernard canal with actual locks, but that would cost money and why spend pennies now when you can watch dollars blow away in the wind tomorrow?
@StevenBarnhart @waldoj So it happened before once, that means it's normal so it's fine?
Really? That's your argument?
While sea level keeps rising and ground water keeps subsiding, it's going to get worse.
When exactly is it time to be alarmed, anyway?
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