(10-03-2023, 04:59 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I knew there would be a time this would happen. When I was a young girl, paying for water was not anything that we even thought about.
In least than 50 years that all changed.
Now let man put his greedy hands on the greatest water supply we have on Earth, and true disaster is due to follow.
Exactly.
When they desalinate this water, where does all the salt go? Back into the ocean to increase it's salinity? That is the ONE thing mankind could actually do to bring on the next ice age. It would affect the thermohaline circulation, and cause the north polar area to get colder by not transporting equatorial water northward. That would cause the glaciers to form again, and spread southward again.
The problem is, this time it would not be natural, there would be no way to desalinate the salt-enriched ocean with all that fresh water locked into ice caps, and it might be something the planet would never pull out of again.
Madness. We don't have any water shortages anyhow. As we emerge from the last ice age, the warmer weather is making the air more humid, and dropping more rain. That actually means we have MORE water available than ever during any of the ice ages. Not since before the ice ages when the climate was at it's normal warm temperature have we had more water than this. So, we do not have a water shortage...
... we have a people surplus.
In other words, we have too many people for the water supply, not too little water for the people supply.
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