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Post #393,577
by Another Scott
8/22/14 8:02:01 PM
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New Scary stuff.
Atrios:

Monday, August 18, 2014

Not A Drop

I can get the impact on agriculture, but still really don't get what happens when the faucets go dry.

by Atrios at 13:00
110 Comments


Yup.

While small towns and cities have used trucked in water for a few weeks, SF or San Jose or LA not having drinking water for weeks or months would be a huge, huge issue. Here's hoping the weather breaks before it comes to that, and that plans are developed to wean the state off such vast amounts of imported water for agriculture...

Hang in there!

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #393,578
by Ashton
8/22/14 9:04:56 PM
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New n-Homo-saps/planet can make for many Happy Campers, we once saw.
Building a Vegas-in-desert, then crying when the lawns are ruled-out: is typ. behavior.
Middle-East Sheikdoms--PhD--piled-higher-and deeper; China lusts for Murican-style-disdain for Facts vs Consumerdom.
(Haven't heard if the one tyke/family Rule has yet been rescinded/ignored ad hoc.)

At say, 5n-homo-saps you get a 20th Century. Bloody but not yet widespread starvation/dehydration.
At say, 9n? ...

It's not even math (and techno merely prolongs): geometric-progression -vs- arithmetic-progression explains exponentials, as Malthus did.
The fantasy-filled don't do even arithmetic.

Waking-up is always a next possibility, of course.
(I have a candle with a really-long wick. :-)
     California drought, with graph. - (Ashton) - (6) - Aug. 22, 2014, 07:29:40 PM EDT
         Plenty of water and room in Michigan. :-P -NT - (malraux) - Aug. 22, 2014, 07:37:21 PM EDT
         Scary stuff. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 22, 2014, 08:02:01 PM EDT
             n-Homo-saps/planet can make for many Happy Campers, we once saw. - (Ashton) - Aug. 22, 2014, 09:04:56 PM EDT
         should have taken Wally Hickel up on his offer huh? :-) -NT - (boxley) - Aug. 23, 2014, 12:36:09 AM EDT
         Grim - (gcareaga) - (1) - Aug. 25, 2014, 06:10:22 PM EDT
             Optimist then.. it took only Eight Years for the Shogunate to set-off - (Ashton) - Aug. 25, 2014, 07:27:19 PM EDT

This is where the night goes from "we had fun" to "mistakes were made," isn't it?
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