This is a developing situation that may end up getting worse. Probably a thing we should be keeping an eye on.
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Chennai, India's Sixth-Largest City Nearly Out of Water, 550 Protesters Arrested
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Although my GF's family doesn't live in Chennai, Mumbai is one of the cities mentioned facing water trouble. I'll have to ask how relatives in Mumbai/Delhi are doing. :(
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I know Wikipedia isn't the best source in the world but Chennai appears to have approximately the same population as Baghdad or Rio de Janeiro.
This should be a lot of peoples most immediate and biggest fear of climate change. Droughts can and do happen and with the climate changing so rapidly they are going to be devastating when they happen especially when combined with humanities penchant for pollution and greed things are going to be bad. I hope India's government or someone finds a solution for the problem for the people in Chennai.
we're barely in the beginning of it and it's already bad. just imagine how bad its gonna get when big cities run out of water worldwide. people aren't gonna just sit around and just accept it they are gonna turn to violence.
Prepare yourselves folks. No matter where you are or how protected you think you are from this type of thing.
Shits going to go down really badly in our lifetimes.
Shits going to go down really badly in our lifetimes.
This is only the start. Things are gonna go to shit if this cascades to multiple cities. Also Pakistan and India have had water sharing problems in the past and it is only going to get worse as time gets on. I would not doubt if India and Pakistan lob nukes at each other eventually over water.
I really don't know how typical conservative Americans who will believe America is somehow immune from this, will react when it starts happening to major American cities.
Probably blame illegal immigrants somehow, I guess.
100M either dying of thirst or fleeing the country for water. Damn
You know, becoming a doomer and stocking up a bunker doesn't sound half bad anymore.
Time to round up a bunch of armed ne'er-do-wells and lay siege to a reservoir.
Hey, where's Deer Park anyways?
Probably. Because as our resources strain, others will have already strained to the point of nonexistence, as we're seeing already in many countries and communities the world over (don't forget the Arctic meltdown which is destroying ages old communities and ecosystems).
Climate refugees will make the 2010s refugee crisis look like the halcyon days. And in the most vulnerable countries, it's going to be majority black and brown people suffering and seeking escape from the misery. And with how humanity is currently, we're going to resemble something not different from what we already are - crabs in a big ol bucket of shit. That's a recipe for disaster when tribes crash together.
The most cruel thing about it is that the old money countries are virtually entirely responsible for decades upon decades of ignorance and misuse and outright intended destruction of our shared biosphere, and yet we'll feel it less and later than those who really had no major part in why the earth is re-balancing itself out of our comfort zone.
something something our golf courses, that's when people really got mad.
So many people are going to die because of disinterest, lack of effort, and denial. It is becoming clear that very little will be done until it starts greatly disrupting western countries, and at that point, it will be too late to fix the harm we've done to our only home.
It's basically...everything. From last year:
But climate change is the ultimate existential threat here. It is absolutely wrecking the monsoon cycle and has been for years now, and India is extremely reliant on the cycle of these monsoons as explained in the below article.
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Chennai apparently got some rain but I've heard conflicting things on how much it'll help.
Obviously anything is better than nothing but I really hope the monsoon comes earlier than expected.
Obviously anything is better than nothing but I really hope the monsoon comes earlier than expected.
I spent 12 days in Chennai in 2017. Lots of great people. That place is packed to the gills with people though.
I did a double take when I looked at India's population- they're within about 50-150 million people of China now depending on the estimate you use. That's absolutely nuts because they're packed in area 1/3rd the size of China. Although I guess most of China's people live near the coast, but still.
I feel like climate change deniers are going to think: well there's record rains where I'm at, what does climate change have to do with India? Already had record precipitation where I'm at for the month, and today dumped another 2 inches of rain. The Madden-Julian oscillation (which is over India) lined the jet stream up in such a way that it helped contribute to the deluge of rain in the US. And that was stacked up with the El Nino oscillation and North Atlantic oscillation.
Hard to not wonder how much warmer temperatures facilitated all of that.
I feel like climate change deniers are going to think: well there's record rains where I'm at, what does climate change have to do with India? Already had record precipitation where I'm at for the month, and today dumped another 2 inches of rain. The Madden-Julian oscillation (which is over India) lined the jet stream up in such a way that it helped contribute to the deluge of rain in the US. And that was stacked up with the El Nino oscillation and North Atlantic oscillation.
Hard to not wonder how much warmer temperatures facilitated all of that.
Many religious conservatives want this to happen. A disturbing amount believe in the End of Times from the bible
Both. Chennai had a decent catchment area which was eventually covered up to make way for high-rise buildings. Politicians/builders only cared about making money and even the ordinary people did not care about what was happening in their neighborhood until recently. Plus we faced unusually high heat wave which sucked the remaining water from the lakes.
This is stark contrast to what happened in 2015 when the city faced one the worst floods in history. South Indian Floods
imo, the main problem India has to address is overpopulation. I don't even know why my state has so many population considering we don't have a single perennial stream or snow-clad mountains.
Oh dear, this isn't good. Hopefully this crisis can be resolved somehow.
Some of the causes sound disturbingly familiar, too - over here in Australia, we're seeing shit like the Murray-Darling basin in trouble because of irrigators and farmers growing fucking rice and cotton. In a desert. Nevermind the competing interests of multiple states where the Murray-Darling runs through
Some of the causes sound disturbingly familiar, too - over here in Australia, we're seeing shit like the Murray-Darling basin in trouble because of irrigators and farmers growing fucking rice and cotton. In a desert. Nevermind the competing interests of multiple states where the Murray-Darling runs through
While this is obviously sarcasm, desalination driven by non-carbon power is one of the pieces of the puzzle needed to solve the problem of worsening water supplies due to climate change, and India's energy policy right now is heavily geared towards a transition to alternative energy sources like renewables, even if the actual implementation isn't doing so well due to certain details scaring away potential investors, according to what I've read so far.