People don't understand the full impact and consequences of drought.
When you draw down the water table, the ground compacts. You never get that water storage capacity back. There's no way to uncompact hundreds of feet worth of ground across thousands of square miles of earth. There are places in California where the ground has compacted several dozen feet.
When you put poison onto the ground, it usually goes into the ground, and sure, the ground may act like a kind of HPLC column and some of that poison might take years to decades to reach the water table...but then what?
When you melt chunks of the arctic and antarctic, you don't just cause sea water levels to rise. You also reduce salinity, and affect global-scale air and water currents like the jetstream - causing dramatic shifts in temperatures and water content of air.
Indigenous peoples have been warning us for ~10 generations that selfishness will/is destroying the planet. Nobody in power has cared, instead mocking those who do as "snowflakes" and "anti growth" and "anti progress" and so on. All to make more money.
You cannot eat money.
Your friends cannot eat money.
Your children cannot eat money.
Their children cannot eat money.
When you draw down the water table, the ground compacts. You never get that water storage capacity back. There's no way to uncompact hundreds of feet worth of ground across thousands of square miles of earth. There are places in California where the ground has compacted several dozen feet.
When you put poison onto the ground, it usually goes into the ground, and sure, the ground may act like a kind of HPLC column and some of that poison might take years to decades to reach the water table...but then what?
When you melt chunks of the arctic and antarctic, you don't just cause sea water levels to rise. You also reduce salinity, and affect global-scale air and water currents like the jetstream - causing dramatic shifts in temperatures and water content of air.
Indigenous peoples have been warning us for ~10 generations that selfishness will/is destroying the planet. Nobody in power has cared, instead mocking those who do as "snowflakes" and "anti growth" and "anti progress" and so on. All to make more money.
You cannot eat money.
Your friends cannot eat money.
Your children cannot eat money.
Their children cannot eat money.