If we fail to act on climate change, Iraq will be doomed

Arab News ^ | February 15, 2024 | DR. MAJID RAFIZADEH

[JimRed]

Would it not be possible for Iraq to build a huge desalination plant and use seawater to be made fresh? Perhaps nuclear powered?

No need for nuke. Hot, sunny desert regions would support solar desalination, basically a lifeboat solar still, writ large. And the by-product? Sea salt, to sell to Whole Foods liberals!

[moonhawk]

Ahh, but drought is climate change, don’cha know?

[StAnDeliver]

How do we accelerate this? ICE pun intended...

[Elsie]

No.

It’s what plants breathe.

Just like our oxygen is not food.

(Isn’t it amazing that the two major living things (plants/animals) on this planet somehow manage to need the exhalations of the other to live! Ain’t Evolution WONDERFUL!)

[Elsie]

If that happens, then sea water will then ebb back up the riverbed, really messing things up!

[Elsie]

Sea sat, which is SO much better for you than mined salt.

(Mined salt USED to be sea salt, but dirt covered it up.)

[Elsie]

In Islam, a hadith is mentioned prophecying about unearthing of a gold mountain beneath the Euphrates river before the apocalypse, with many people dying fighting over it; it is said to be one of the future minor signs of the coming of Judgement Day:[66][67]

“Sahih Muslim 2894 c Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

The Last Hour would not come unless the Euphrates would uncover a treasure of gold, so he who finds it should not take anything out of that.”

[Iron Munro]

Well Said!

[Fledermaus]

And that’s a bad thing?

[Blue Collar Christian]

So, climate change MAY turn Iraq into a shithole?

[Redcitizen]

I only see sea salt but mined salt is mine. 😆