Comment by SyzygistSix
4 years ago
Most of these are pretty good, if not a big stretch.
>First the plague, now the war, next the famine!
I'm noting no predictions on this page regarding the Colorado River and the drought in the US West. Will the drought continue? Get worse? Could it cause a famine? Or just widespread adoption of efficient watering systems?
There's more than a few "oh shit the food supply" stories sizzling in the background. Wheat exports from Ukraine/Russia is an obvious one. Spotted lantern fly eating the crops we like to eat in the American North East is another. Colorado River drought is yet a third. They might all be nothing, but only one of them has to be something.
Drought is hitting Europe and Asia as well. Water will be traded as a commodity if it isn’t already beyond water purification companies.
Food prices in North America will continue to climb as drought worsens agriculture in California and Mexico. California supplies most of the food in Western North America, including the Western half of Canada
Yeah it's been hitting even central Europe (Germany, France, Benelux AT/CH etc) for the last few years.
It's harder to notice from afar because it's not deserty (yet) but the temperatures are going up all year and with it the obvious problems and also new and "exciting" fauna and flora is arriving.
Many places in that area are historically very water rich that's why the consequences to everyday life are often not yet that severe.
No idea about Europe but I think the Colorado River watershed will improve in 2023, ruining any chance of getting meaningful change accomplished - and guaranteeing deadpool by 2030.
For the record, the National Weather Service predicts average snowpack in the headwaters of the Colorado.
The west coast was desert once and to desert it will return.