Western Water, or lack thereof

[krusty]

Someone recommended the book The West without Water on another thread - after reading it based on that plug, I’d recommend it to anyone. We are not ready for what’s likely coming.

We're never ready for anything...as a species we're pre-programmed for immediate gratification. Being proactive just ain't in our genes, much like our lack of interest in not repeating historical mistakes over and over again. If it hasn't happened in our direct personal experience it doesn't mean jackshit.

That tendency must have worked out great in our early years as a struggling species, but it's plainly maladaptive now. We'll consume, breed, and pollute 'til there ain't no more.

Hell, due to the vast cornucopia of calories now readily available and lack of necessity to engage in any actual physical activity we now need drugs to slim our fat asses down.

 

[Mossback]

True...

As a species we display none of the traits that would allow us to evolve past, or even survive any sort of catastrophic event. Poorly adapted, and unwilling to change, repeating the same failed strategies.
Hell, we still kill each other over trivial disagreements.
The entire Homo sapien thing has been an utter failure, and I hope there's better, more well adapted species somewhere in the universe.

 

[Roper]

“ they paved paradise and put up a parking lot…” “ they cut down the trees, put them in a tree museum” IYKYK

 

[Roper]

 

[Roper]

 

[Flymph]

Let's hear it for the residents of Easter Island!

 

[SurfnFish]

We've been in the warning phase of drought plus rising sea levels, akin to the warnings of Hitler in the mid 30's, with the same response from the denial ostriches..'nothing to see here'.
A single point of inflection, the Doomsday' glacier, will be by itself a game changer for hundreds of millions world wide, a regional example well modeled by the Bellingham Puget Sound Sea Rise Impact exhibit we visited a decade back while on a road trip. Highly sobering.

Scientists issue warning as 'Doomsday Glacier' nears tipping point: 'Every single day we have a look'

"This data record is one of the longest, most consistent satellite data records in existence."

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