The Coming Storm: How Mediterranean Water Collapse Could Reshape Britain
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Re: The Coming Storm: How Mediterranean Water Collapse Could Reshape Britain
#2This is a good, thoughtful analysis. I think many people outside the Mediterranean region are simply unaware of water issues there. As for the UK, I can't understand why they have allowed sustained high immigration rates for decades despite food insecurity and a housing shortage.
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#3Stopped reading at "vertical farms" as a solution. It doesn't matter how energy intensive desalination is when the energy input arrives for free from space. People need to get used to not caring about efficiency.
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#4Solar is so cheap that desalination is cheap enough that the only thing that will get appreciably more expensive is water intensive products like beef.
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#5Perhaps it's time Britain improved its food supply which hasn't been self-sufficient since, probably, the Napoleonic Wars.
That being said if the population continues to grow at the pace it is, there won't be enough water, either.
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#6This is a good, thoughtful analysis. I think many people outside the Mediterranean region are simply unaware of water issues there. As for the UK, I can't understand why they have allowed sustained high immigration rates for decades despite food insecurity and a housing shortage.
> why they have allowed sustained high immigration rates for decades
recently its because we need skilled and cheap labour to fill the holes in our health and buisness system.
Housing shortages is not a direct immigration issue[1], its a policy issue. People of a certain type do not want high rise buildings near them. people of another different type are really happy because they can now build less and sell for more. Yet another class of people go apoplectic when its suggested that social housing should be built (my taxes! why do they get something for nothing.)
In short, we are our own worst enemies.
[1] net migration at 1 million was utterly insane, and I'm still not sure how a government that lead brexit with "we'll control our borders" managed to be so divorced from what it was doing. Thats rhetorical by the way its short-termism and utter utter incompetence.
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#7> It's a crisis measured in hard numbers: reservoir levels, rainfall data, aquifer depletion rates.
Of course I went to check the actual numbers from official sources and they tell a different story. Reservoir levels near historical maximum. So much for building an article on "hard numbers" without pointing to sources.
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#8Why the article talks about Iran in an article supposedly about "Mediterranean water"? It felt out of place for me
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#9Solar is so cheap that desalination is cheap enough that the only thing that will get appreciably more expensive is water intensive products like beef.
Desalination is not just about power, you've have to build and maintain the thing. There are consumables as well.
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#10Are more northern countries able to take over some of the production? I'd guess maybe as water declines in southern countries, the temperature rises so more northern latitudes might grow the same crops.
Of course it's going to take time for different agriculture regions to get set up.