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Post you favorite US ecological diasters which will happen in the next 50-100 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhTGK1ybkk My favs 1. Florida Underwater due global warming and the state government banned even researching possible scenarios drown your neighborhood map tool https://ss2.climatecentral.org/#12/40.7298/-74.0070?show=satellite&projections=0-K14_RCP85-SLR&level=5&unit=feet&pois=hide 2. Arizona/CA to deplete aquifer reserves due to agriculture https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/magazine/the-water-wars-of-arizona.html quote:At the meeting, residents accused farmers of sucking the water out from under them and the state of shirking its responsibilities. Lacey, the A.D.W.R. official, argued that the state couldn’t put water back into their wells. The only solution for homeowners, the officials explained, was to chase the water downward, by deepening their wells a few hundred feet. The cost of this, residents knew, was $15,000 to $30,000 — as much as half the value of some homes in the valley.
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I'm the underwater nuclear power plant
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 00:31 |
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I'm the thousands of earthquakes occurring in Oklahoma for no reason at all, certainly not fracking https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/byregion/oklahoma/OKeqanimation.php
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 00:37 |
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Also arctic sea ice that keeps dipping below 2 standard deviations from the mean http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 00:53 |
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That's only current yearly deaths specifically talking about diseases caused by pollution. In our glorious future, we can easily surpass that http://ar5-syr.ipcc.ch/topic_summary.php
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 01:25 |
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lets shoot our guns at the great filter maybe that will get us past it
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 01:30 |
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does this count? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one quote:Seismologists know that how long an earthquake lasts is a decent proxy for its magnitude. The 1989 earthquake in Loma Prieta, California, which killed sixty-three people and caused six billion dollars’ worth of damage, lasted about fifteen seconds and had a magnitude of 6.9. A thirty-second earthquake generally has a magnitude in the mid-sevens. A minute-long quake is in the high sevens, a two-minute quake has entered the eights, and a three-minute quake is in the high eights. By four minutes, an earthquake has hit magnitude 9.0.
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 01:32 |
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While the Pacific Northwest is horrifyingly unprepared for an eventually inevitable high magnitude earthquake, the resulting tsunami is probably not going to be as apocalyptic as the article implies because the high pop Washington areas like Seattle are protected by Puget Sound and the high pop Oregon areas like Portland are too far inland. Also it doesn't really count as an ecological impact; the reason I put the earthquakes from Oklahoma up there is they're almost entirely caused by wastewater injection, a type of pollution, and it probably hasn't done great things to the regional water quality. Edit: I guess the relative lowering of a big chunk of coast into the sea will impact the forests and stuff so alright you get a pass just this one time okay Double edit: I want to emphasize that the author of that piece is a huge idiot as they unironically cite San Andreas, the movie, as an example of what might happen in a big earthquake. Also the pre-corrected article cited Portland as in the tsunami zone conveying the inability of the author to even glance at a map before metaphorically hitting submit on their dumb post Uranium Phoenix has issued a correction as of 02:24 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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My city has a landfill where Manhattan Project nuclear leftovers were buried. Said landfill is also now on fire, and there's concern it could reach the nuclear waste and start pluming toxic/radioactive smoke. So, that.
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Astrofig posted:My city has a landfill where Manhattan Project nuclear leftovers were buried. Said landfill is also now on fire, and there's concern it could reach the nuclear waste and start pluming toxic/radioactive smoke. west lake?
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 03:26 |
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the us won't even see that big an ecological disaster in the coming decades. the places that will see those ecological disasters are far, far less prepared to deal with them and we will have a worldwide refugee crisis on a scale never before seen, and the western world will go full fascism as a result to keep the refugees out. have fun~
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