Originally published at: Look at this animated timelapse of drought patterns in the United States from 1999 to 2021 | Boing Boing
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I was in Texas in 2011, when the whole state basically dried up. It was horrifying. I made my own version of this map just for Texas, just for that year:
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The spice must flow.
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Hey West Coast, East Coast here.
I’ve got some rain and humidity to sell you. Cheap.
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Whaf’s more ominous than the overall amount of drought is the increasingly wide variation.
No one worries about drought in the Sahara desert; they just don’t live there. Even if (say) Texas became a desert over the next hundred years, people would just gradually move elsewhere. But if anywhere can suddenly become a dust bowl, then no food source is reliable. So that’s a bummer.
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It’s a 100 in the shade today with 5% humidity, rain expected in 4 months time.
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This is why Peter Watts says the US will find a pretext to invade and occupy Canada within the next 15-20 years. Canada has plentiful water, lots of arable land, plus the military will be easily overwhelmed by the American war machine.
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Or the States start collapsing, one by one. Time to read Paolo Bacigalup’s “The Water Knife”, I think.
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We broke the planet.
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