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Scorched Earth: Severe Drought Devastates Southern Africa
https://scitechdaily.com/ ^
| APRIL 25, 2024
| EMILY CASSIDY, NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY
Posted on 04/26/2024 7:18:40 PM PDT by Jonty30
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If whites were still in charge, they probably could have engineered solutions, but they are not in charge.
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:18:40 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30
When I was in high school 50 years ago, we heard nothing but stories of the massive drought and famine in Africa. Nothing has changed.
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:20:37 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
To: Jonty30
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:21:03 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
The difference is that there are technological solutions that didn’t exist back then. Like desalination plants, for example.
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:22:08 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
To: Jonty30
Farming gets real. It's not a product of politics. Neither is water treatment, electricity, welding, plumbing,
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:23:39 PM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
To: Jonty30
Desalination takes 1) a functioning technocracy and 2) abundant, cheap energy. Neither exist in Africa.
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:23:56 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
South Africa was a functioning technocracy at one time, 30 years ago.
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:25:04 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
To: Jonty30
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:25:29 PM PDT
by
Flatus I. Maximus
(VOTE BIDEN 2024! Too senile to stand trial but good enough to run the country!)
To: Jonty30
Gee whiz. They only have what, 1000 miles of coastline? No opportunity for desalination? Maybe they lack the energy capacity to run them.
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:46:37 PM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: monkeyshine
They were once a nuclear power, thirty years ago,
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:50:45 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
To: Jonty30
Meanwhile, there are flash floods in other parts of the continent.
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:58:28 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: Jonty30
Actually until the last five or ten years.
A few of the other European colonies in Africa did well until abandoning them.
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posted on
04/26/2024 8:03:41 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
To: Jonty30
>>could have engineered solutions
If only there were technologies for drilling water wells for irrigation needs.
/s
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posted on
04/26/2024 8:18:36 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Deaf Smith
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posted on
04/26/2024 8:24:37 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Desalination takes 1) a functioning technocracy and 2) abundant, cheap energy. Neither exist in Africa. Sounds like California,
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posted on
04/26/2024 8:46:55 PM PDT
by
Bernard
(“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
To: Jonty30
“In South Africa, the government gives a free basic allowance of 6,000 litres per month to every household.”
Anyone see a problem here? /s
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posted on
04/26/2024 10:05:26 PM PDT
by
DennisR
(Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
To: dfwgator
To: Jonty30
To: Jonty30
This is more broadly Southern Africa than South Africa:
“But CHC researchers analyzing CHIRPS data found that February 2024 was the driest February in the 40-year data record for an area spanning much of Zambia, Zimbabwe, southeastern Angola, and northern Botswana.”
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Famine had all but been eradicated from earth thanks to US agritech. It’s one of the greatest accomplishments of modern man.
Crop yields are up between 800-1200% in 30yrs.
From drought resistant crops to simplistic devices employed to capture morning dew it is an incredible never heralded accomplishment.
It takes extreme conditions to flare up at this point.
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