Peak Water

[FearlessFreep]

To finish off the doom&gloom trifecta of Rising Oil Prices and Rising Food Prices...

From The Crisis is Coming: How Peak Water Could Reshape Civilization

If you think peak oil is a big deal, then just wait until the peak water crisis is in full swing. Experts say that in many areas aquifers and rivers are starting to run dry as human consumption and other factors are straining one of our most essential resources: fresh water.

In highly populated developing nations, water shortages and poor access to clean water has been a common concern. Currently 1.1 billion people living without access to safe drinking water. Even so, the problem seems far away in the minds of many who are living in more privileged circumstances. However, that may be about to change.

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[Sukerkin]

Ain't it marvellous?! Just when you think we might have a stab at creating and maintaining a high-tech civilisation and the whole thing comes crashing down yet again .

No oil, no water, no bees = no food == very few humans. Most depressing.

It's ironic that we've thought mostly about the 'Big Event' catastrophies that could finish us off (asteroids and their ilk) and it looks like poorly bees may be the end of our great rise.

P.S. Does anyone remember a book called the "Death of Grass" by John Christopher (I think that was the author). That was a "Survivors" type scenario posited on the failure of agricultural cereals.

 

[tellner]

The aquifers that allowed the development of the Prairies and the American West are essentially gone. We drained millions of years of accumulation in one human lifetime. Sorry, six thousand years of fossilized water from the Great Flood **intolerant speech removed per policy**.

Every once in a while some wishful thinking moron, **intolerant speech removed per policy**, says that there's just got to be infinite water down there somewhere just waiting to be found and save us all from our short-sightedness.

It's exactly the same story as deforestation, global warming, toxic chemicals in the food chain and every other disaster that snuck up on us. First there's derision for any lunatic who could imagine that things would ever change. Then there are the hired guns for the rich vested interests. Then the scientists are Communists and traitors. Then the data are true, but it's not our fault. Then there are more rounds of paid lies, trashing the good name of the people with the data, looting of the government coffers by the same people who caused the problem, and finally the whining that there's nothing we can do about it, so there.

 

[terryl965]

That is great fresh water is going to be gone, So lets see high cost of food and gas and now the same for water. What is next?

 

[Big Don]

Every once in a while some wishful thinking moron, almost without exception a large "C" Christian

That is some blatant bigotry there.

 

[Twin Fist]

mouth-breathing Know Nothings.

Every once in a while some wishful thinking moron, almost without exception a large "C" Christian

wow


ok, moving on, here's an idea, we do mass sea water de-salinization. As the water level rises from global warming, we can lower it by boiling out the salt and drinking it.

It's a win/win

 

[Archangel M]

Where did the water go? I always thought that matter couldnt be destroyed. Do we have a surplus of Oxygen and Hydrogen now?

Evaporators and desalinaton plants....

 

[Archangel M]

Has there ever been a civilization or generation that DIDNT have some doomsday prophesy? Ours are just based on "scientific" studies rather than Angels pouring out fire upon the earth.

 

[The Last Legionary]

The aquifers that allowed the development of the Prairies and the American West are essentially gone. We drained millions of years of accumulation in one human lifetime. Sorry, six thousand years of fossilized water from the Great Flood according to the mouth-breathing Know Nothings.

Every once in a while some wishful thinking moron, almost without exception a large "C" Christian and political Conservative, says that there's just got to be infinite water down there somewhere just waiting to be found and save us all from our short-sightedness.

It's exactly the same story as deforestation, global warming, toxic chemicals in the food chain and every other disaster that snuck up on us. First there's derision for any lunatic who could imagine that things would ever change. Then there are the hired guns for the rich vested interests. Then the scientists are Communists and traitors. Then the data are true, but it's not our fault. Then there are more rounds of paid lies, trashing the good name of the people with the data, looting of the government coffers by the same people who caused the problem, and finally the whining that there's nothing we can do about it, so there.

Probably could have saved the obvious anti-Christian bigotry and bias and made the same points. But what do I know?

 

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[CoryKS]

Aw jeez, what's the worst that could happen. So we have the big environmental catastrophe that some on this board fap-fap-fap over, all humans gone, and then the world starts over again. With sentient cockroaches or something. And then, eventually, they'll screw it up too. And then our bloated, fuel-deprived sun expands and engulfs the Earth, rendering it permanently uninhabitable.

BFD. Our time here is limited, no matter how you slice it.

 

[Sukerkin]

ROFL ... and I thought I was a pessimist .

 

[terryl965]

ROFL ... and I thought I was a pessimist .

Me too, but Corky holds the record now.

 

[Archangel M]

Hes right. Once we all accept it, then we can all stop getting ulcers over the next doomsday prophesy.

 

[Makalakumu]

Me? I'd like to see me and mine live long happy lives where we are able to prosper and live peacefully with one another. We'll see the worst case scenario effects of peak oil and water in our lifetimes if we do nothing. The extinction of the human race may be the only mitigation of the misery we all feel starting with our generation.

 

[Archangel M]

Gonna be hard to do what with all the stuff the doomsday fans keep dredging up. Been happening since when? The Myans?

 

[Makalakumu]

Gonna be hard to do what with all the stuff the doomsday fans keep dredging up.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but are you implying that if the "doomers" would just put a lid on it, we'd all be a lot happier?

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Well, we'll know in 4 years or so if they (the Mayans) were right.

 

[Makalakumu]

Well, we'll know in 4 years or so if they (the Mayans) were right.

Heh. I train by watching Apocalypto now...

Jaguar style!

 

[Empty Hands]

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