skuzz@discuss.tchncs.detoUplifting News@lemmy.world•Styrofoam food containers are now banned in OregonEnglish
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6 days agoThat’s dope. And factual.
That’s dope. And factual.
Genuinely LOL’d at your post.
But, to rebuff in some joking annoying science nerd way with a bummer fact:
YOU HAVE NO OCEANS ANYMORE. You used them all up growing corn for moonshine!
“So, large regions of the Ogallala are going to run out of water, particularly in the Southern High Plains – how are we going to embrace that and not just respond to the change?”
Can Colorado slide over and join you left coast states? We’ve been doing stuff like that too, but we’re surrounded by a sea of red.
Although, if the documentary sent back in time to us entitled Hunger Games is any indication, we’ll be the capital of the new nation, so maybe we’re fine.
Nebraska goes, “gol’ durn it! We want our water from the Platte River! It’s ours! We’re going to war with Colorado!”
Colorado goes, “Yeah, so water rarely makes it that far anymore, good luck, gg no re.”
New Mexico is like, “Yeah, all our Ogallala wells pump brine now.”
Reminds me, some of the worst drinking water I have had in my life came from those dust bowl states.
You ever read the water history stuff where back in the (I believe) 1950s, there was a plan to build 6 nuclear reactors to power a pump/pipe system to pipe Mississippi River water up to New Mexico? They decided against it, and decided, “eh, that water will run out in 50 or so years, we’ll let future us worry about that.” Checks calendar.