How long until the state desertifies completely?

  • Prolefarian [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Or how long until people realize the news is gonna keep acting like everything is fine until there's no water left for the poor

    • Pastaguini [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If you want water for the poor, you must be willing to pour water :pete: :pete: :pete:

      • Prolefarian [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        lol nice. "Sure these folks lack water, but they've got an even more powerful thirst... the thirst for economic freedom"

    • Mother [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I think I recall reading a story a while back of a town where the aquifer ran dry. People who had houses there lost everything, since nobody is going to buy a place with no water.

      This was a few years ago too, maybe 3 or 4, well before COVID, and I know a lot of heat deaths occur in mobile home communities in the southern inland areas

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Looking forward to stories of poor folk being displaced from lack of water while rich folk have sprawling green lawns and golf courses :agony-acid:

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    California will be looking fairly savanna-like within the next couple decades. If you drive through the foothills about 50% of trees you can see from the road are dead and brown. Saw a bit of the news saying the high country lost 3 inches of snowpack in a 24 hour period yesterday. Went 50 something days without a drop of rain this winter.