Drought
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- SchralpTheGnar
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Re: Drought
Thanks for the beta, much appreciated
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Re: Drought
they'll be shipping it here from Mars before too long.
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Re: Drought
welcome to the new normal. congrats to all the climate deniers and climate skeptics (and their backers in the oil/gas industry) who were able to sow enough doubt and confusion in previous decades over this issue to delay action back when smaller, more tolerable changes might have been enough to change course. the actions that would be required to make a significant difference now are still beyond what most people would be willing to put up with, so we'll just keep swirling down the toilet until there's no more water left to flush with. all the doubters who demanded absolute proof before before doing anything about it, well you'll get your absolute proof soon enough, problem is by the time you have your absolute proof it's too late to do anything about it.
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- CaptainSuburbia
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Re: Drought
Anyone out driving last weekend knows we're doomed if this is human caused.
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- Urban Snowshoer
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Re: Drought
Even if this turns out to not be human caused there are enough idiots out there, when it comes to campfires, that it may be a matter of when--not if--we get a human-caused one.CaptainSuburbia wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:10 am Anyone out driving last weekend knows we're doomed if this is human caused.
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- Jon Frohlich
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Re: Drought
I'm super sensitive to wildfire smoke and I'm already having headaches, sneezing, and asthma attacks even in Denver. Not looking forward to another few months of this at all.
- COFitnessJenn
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Re: Drought
Makes me sad, nature/wildlife pays the ultimate price for human greed and ignorance.
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Re: Drought
There are now two seasons in the West; winter and wildfire season.
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Re: Drought
But it wasn't much of a winter at least in the part of CO I live.
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Re: Drought
humanity will pay the ultimate price eventually: extinction.COFitnessJenn wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:44 am Makes me sad, nature/wildlife pays the ultimate price for human greed and ignorance.
after that, nature and wildlife will recover and be better off without us. might take a few hundred or a few thousand or a few million years, but the planet will be fine in the end.
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Re: Drought
yes hopefully we can turn this one around
but I've always been kind of obsessed with ancestal puebloans
and more and more I think about how a long term drought caused them to have to just abandon everything
hopefully our cities won't end up like old cliff dwellings, where people later wonder why anyone ever lived there in the first place.
because seemingly we are in a drought that is worse than the one that knocked them out
but I've always been kind of obsessed with ancestal puebloans
and more and more I think about how a long term drought caused them to have to just abandon everything
hopefully our cities won't end up like old cliff dwellings, where people later wonder why anyone ever lived there in the first place.
because seemingly we are in a drought that is worse than the one that knocked them out
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- Iguru
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Re: Drought
Until the sun goes red giant and the first three planets are swallowed up in the processtimisimaginary wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:04 pmhumanity will pay the ultimate price eventually: extinction.COFitnessJenn wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:44 am Makes me sad, nature/wildlife pays the ultimate price for human greed and ignorance.
after that, nature and wildlife will recover and be better off without us. might take a few hundred or a few thousand or a few million years, but the planet will be fine in the end.
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