The sea is on fire, the Southwest is about to die of thirst, the Ogalalla Aquifer is bottoming out,

[Atticus]

glaciers are melting, islands are disappearing----and the Republicans still have there panties in a twist over who loves who, what herbs people smoke and melanin.

They are killing us.

[milestogo]

1. Not to mention who is using what bathroom.

[jimfields33]

2. Who cares what the republicans want

We have majority in everything. Get all the democratic senators on board and we can pass anything and everything.

[intheflow]

3. 100% accurate. n/t

[former9thward]

4. I live in the SW

No one is about to die of thirst.

[Dustlawyer]

8. Still wish we could send you some of our rain.

It seems it has rained/stormed all Spring and now Summer. Growing gills down here in SE Texas!

[AllaN01Bear]

13. been trying to talk to the rain spirits but all i get is a busy signal.

[Warpy]

15. I live in the SW and what's about to be clobbered

is the water dependedent farming in southern Arizona. The river and reservoirs are about dry and previous groundwater pumping has led to subsidence and massive cracks that now threaten homes and businesses. Farmers say this year they will have to pump even more out of the aquifer. I'm afraid the SW is going to have to adapt--a lot--to increased desertification.

[jpak]

5. The sea, the sea, the sea is on fire

Burn Ogallala, burn

(Sorry)

[peggysue2]

6. We're killing ourselves

Jimmy Carter tried to warn us. The majority laughed and scoffed. The fossil fuel industry has hidden the evidence for decades. They knew. Many knew but were unwilling to give up continuing profits to make the necessary environmental changes to stabilize what's been brewing for the last 50 years.

Now we're seeing, experiencing clear evidence of what's coming down the pike. And still people deny it, those on the right most of all because their perks and power are intimately tied to industry.

If we don't at least try to mitigate and prepare for the worst, we'll all be part of a mass suicide event. It's that serious, as I'm sure you're well aware.

And yes, I am furious at the GOP for their continued refusal to admit what's happening, right now under our very noses, within everyone's eyesight and sensibility.

The Earth, our nest and only home is being ravaged by Climate Change. No wonder the billionaires are desperately attempting to get off planet, go to Mars, set up their own space stations.

And still the deniers hum their silly, disgusting song which in reality is a Swan Song. To the detriment of every living thing on the planet.

[yonder]

14. +1.

[IronLionZion]

7. GOP answer to all of this is to build an oil pipeline through the aquifer

since it's bottoming out anyway

[Postal Grunt]

9. Replacing the Ogalalla Aquifer

Some clueless and inconsiderate types proposed appropriating some land in NE Kansas for use as a reservoir for water from the Missouri River. The water would have then been transferred to SW Kansas to water the corn crops there. Property would have had to been taken over for an aqueduct that would cross crop land, state and interstate highways. Several pumping stations would have been required to overcome the rise in elevation. The potential for a 30% loss of water during transfer caused some heads to rattle.

http://duwaterlawreview.com/missouri-river-aqueduct-is-a-kansas-pipe-dream/

https://www.kcur.org/2019-01-23/are-billions-needed-for-a-cross-state-canal-to-save-western-kansas

Fortunately, calmer heads and a lack of reliable funding collapsed the idea for the present.

[Snackshack]

10. They

Have been for a while now and we continue to let them. The past 15 months saw a considerable increase.

[TheFarseer]

11. Can we at least

Start a program to plant a bunch of trees in cities? I see lots of places where trees would make sense, like parks with no shade and medians where you can tell they planted trees but half of them died.

[DBoon]

22. like this?

https://www.treepeople.org/

[TheFarseer]

27. Yes!

That is outstanding! I checked if anything like that existed in my community about 2 years ago and it didn’t. I’ll definitely check again.

[flying_wahini]

12. Are we too late to change the immediate future? Some changes are still possible.

You have to wonder about the environmental impact of doing big construction projects
like this one.

North Texas just completed a new Lake Bois D’Arc for water supplies in North Texas.
It is the first one built for 30 years.
Just a fascinating project that happened pretty quick for Texas.

[link:https://boisdarclake.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/FINAL-BDL-Project-Factsheet-3.20.19-2.pdf|

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. Ah a great time to call you what they call me.. Debbie Downer :) jk

Horrible state of affairs.. agree 100%

[DanieRains]

17. Carbon Tax Only Answer

Wanna fly? Wanna drive? Pay for your emissions.

Simple.

Expensive.

Earth's only chance.

[Ponietz]

20. WAY PAST TIME FOR THIS!

[oasis]

25. +1

[ancianita]

18. The entire Oglalla will only be 70% depleted in the next 50 years, & BIG AG accounts for 90% of that

Similar to the water hogging of Big Ag in California that's contributing to its drought.

In Republican Earth 2, everyone's got to suffer except the bottom line.

[Joinfortmill]

19. That says it all.

[Politicub]

21. Almonds, beef and lawns in the desert are more important than people dying

of thirst, apparently.

And desalinization is not a panacea. While it may be possible to come up with a technology to create enough drinking water from sea water for a city the size of Los Angeles, the resources it would take to run the system would create more pollution. Desalinization at that scale has never been done, though.

Plus, the city would need a new system of plumbing where drinking water isn’t wasted for flushing toilets.

[onethatcares]

26. but

her emails!!!!

If we were as incompetent at our jobs as our elected representatives seem to be, we'd be gone, gone, gone, in short order without any commissions or panels appointed to keep us on payroll.

WTF?