Europe is facing drought with more groundwater being lost than replaced by rain
According to the European Drought Observatory, more than a third of the continent is currently under a drought warning, with 10% experiencing severe drought.
In the Netherlands this is almost completely caused by farmers (that are overrepresented in the water boards) which keep the groundwater level low for better yields. This obviously backfires during the summer when the levels get too low.
Do you mean they get some direct yield benefit from a low water table, or that they water their crops a lot for high yield, and that results in the low water table?
Genuine question: Is that good or bad? What kind of farmers? Food or tulips? Humans gotta eat, and I thought Netherlands produces a lot of Europe's agricultural output
Farmers as being described here are not some podunk hillbillies living off the land. These are massive corporate entities who have cannibalized their competition over the last 60 years. They don't toil in the fields, their hordes of underpaid Southeast Asian and African immigrants do that for them, while they drive around in Land Rovers.
This is not something done out of necessity, this is done out of keeping their profit margins as high as possible.
Maaan, at this point I think we’d be lucky to get to 2030 without some globally catastrophic weather event.
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Global warming won't even be the real issue for us. Once we have issues like fish stock collapse and crop shortages, people will be happy enough to position themselves as the new greatest threat to humanity.
Its scary innit
In so glad climate change is just a ploy by bill gates to inject us with 5g microdrones
You guys are getting microdrones?
I got a rock
Hey now, we can still joke around about climate change being fake, but we shouldn't start pretending that Bill Gates isn't a total piece of shit.
No no global warming is real.
The ploy here is pretending that nuclear isn’t the obvious solution, so Bill Gates can inject us with 5g nanobots.
Last summer was hellish and droughts were everywhere, it seems like this summer is gonna get just as rough if not worse .
This summer in Missouri is terrible. We’ve had some light rain here and there, but only for a few minutes that a time and it’s been that way for months. Dry as a bone here. Chances of rain constantly and most of it never materializes.
Europe can have some of our water.
— Colorado
Well yea he far right and idiot farmers refuse to use modern or sane practices, leading to an 100% self inflicted crisis we all get to pay for.
It is recommended that readers pee outside until further notice.
That is all.
For the month of June, Portland Maine had two days without rain. And so far, in July it's rained every day. We're so sick of rain here.
You can grow stuff with too much water but it's hard to grow stuff without water.
Good for you, I guess...
