How much time do you think is left. I'm guessing 15 years before climate change gets real real and then another 10-20 of famine and extreme weather events, plagues other hellishness. I'm in the asteroids kill the planet every 20,000 years or so camp, but maybe a supervolcano will erupt or major fault line will go in our lifetimes.
Depends on where you live, and what precautions your regional govt takes.
In a class last year my professor brought someone in from UN-Water or some such relevant IGO to speak on water scarcity. I asked her what the outlook was for the near future, and she said "The water wars are coming." I'll never forget the certainty with which she said that.
It's going to depend on where you live. It's already real real in my country and there's not really water wars as much as there is a lot of rationing and the state cracking down out of desperation. Parts of the US like the Northeast will face the least issues and people living in certain areas of it can probably live through it all and not face any of the more series issues that other parts of the world will. Their biggest issues will be a dramatic increase in prices for everything, population booms from refugees domestically and internationally, as well as occasional flooding and squalls.
How much time do you think is left. I'm guessing 15 years before climate change gets real real and then another 10-20 of famine and extreme weather events, plagues other hellishness. I'm in the asteroids kill the planet every 20,000 years or so camp, but maybe a supervolcano will erupt or major fault line will go in our lifetimes.
Depends on where you live, and what precautions your regional govt takes.
In a class last year my professor brought someone in from UN-Water or some such relevant IGO to speak on water scarcity. I asked her what the outlook was for the near future, and she said "The water wars are coming." I'll never forget the certainty with which she said that.
According to her it will probably start in the middle east, which isn't exactly surprising. Consider, though, that Cape Town might have become the first major city to run out of water in 2017 had they not taken aggressive steps to curb water use. And with weather growing increasingly erratic, who knows?
I watched climate scientists at my school go through the stages of hedonism and despair.
It's going to depend on where you live. It's already real real in my country and there's not really water wars as much as there is a lot of rationing and the state cracking down out of desperation. Parts of the US like the Northeast will face the least issues and people living in certain areas of it can probably live through it all and not face any of the more series issues that other parts of the world will. Their biggest issues will be a dramatic increase in prices for everything, population booms from refugees domestically and internationally, as well as occasional flooding and squalls.