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TexasTowelie

(111,292 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 11:20 AM Aug 2022

China's Yangtze River Dries Up Amid Unprecedented Drought - NBC News



Southwestern China is facing an unprecedented drought amid a monthslong heat wave that is causing the Yangtze River to dry up. The Yangtze River normally supports about a third of the country’s population through hydropower and crop irrigation.
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China's Yangtze River Dries Up Amid Unprecedented Drought - NBC News (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2022 OP
This is so hard to imagine. It's a huge river. Was anyway nt Richard D Aug 2022 #1
The earth is on fire, and the band played on. We're fucked. Go see a glacier now; limited edition. Evolve Dammit Aug 2022 #2
After decades when most could ignore and deny, the future's here. Hortensis Aug 2022 #3
I've thought for years this global disaster was on the distant horizon. Handler Aug 2022 #4

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. After decades when most could ignore and deny, the future's here.
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 12:40 PM
Aug 2022

I never thought I and mine would get to live into such interesting times. Didn't count on mass embrace of planetwide disaster. In the U.S.!

China's water problems are everyone else's too, of course. The sources of 10 major rivers (including the Yangtse) that flow through even more nations are in China, which controls the giant "Third Pole" reservoir of ice and snow in the Himalaya region, our planet's third largest reserve of fresh water after the two polar regions. And of course, it's melting. China's building dams in the Himalayas like mad...

Handler

(335 posts)
4. I've thought for years this global disaster was on the distant horizon.
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 01:53 PM
Aug 2022

Seems I was very wrong, it is happening now. We have passed the tipping point.

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