Sad to say, nature will take care of the overpopulation.
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Sorry to hear about the flooding in India and Nepal.
Yet in the same issue the NYT is running an article on how Chennai, in India, is running out of water.
Global warming/climate change proponents have yet to come up with a clear explanation how global warming/climate change can cause such disparate impacts in the same geographical area. GW and CC are also entirely unpredictable according to current theories, which means that both GW and CC are not currently science-based.
In fact, GW and CC have been taking place on earth for millennia, with successive and extensive periods of rain, snow, glaciers and drought occurring long before humankind had the numbers and technology to generate excess CO2 and other byproducts that are now considered detrimental.
Do humans and their technologies have the ability to impact the planet? Of course.
Do we have the ability to predict or control climate and weather? Not yet, which means our understanding of climate and weather is incomplete.
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No mention of deforestation here. Loss of trees must be part of the problem.
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Devastating floods in Nepal, Bangladesh, India....I hope we stop ignoring the signs that the environment is sending us. Please Support flood victims @ https://igg.me/at/emergency-relief-fund-for-flood-victims/x/21797329#/
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Extreme rainfall in action, multiplied by the felling of trees and forests, overpopulation, and the resulting runoff in areas of the world where the local population is the poorest.
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If the world can figure out how to truck and sail crude oil all over the globe why cant we figure out a way to move excess water to places that have no water. For the smartest species on the planet we really haven't reached our full potential. This is so frustrating.
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@English Kibbons I understand your sentiment about unfairness in the world, but the solution you are proposing is not useful. If you look at the photographs in this article you can see the water is pale to dark brown. This is due mostly to silt (very fine sand and clay particles) and some sewage, among other pollutants. Why wouldn't your proposal work? First, there is no economical way to separate silt and water on a massive scale. The fine particles would clog large scale filters almost as soon as you start pumping. Second, you would have to treat the contaminated water to clean it. And third, and most importantly, water costs about 0.1 cents per liter, while Brent crude oil currently trades at about 41 cents per liter, or 410 times more valuable. This is why humans extract and sail crude oil all over the world. In fact, despite crude oil's damaging contribution to climate change, some of the energy it produces is used to extract, pump, transport and purify water all over the world.
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