Cape Town’s Water Crisis Should Be a Warning to the World Jonah Shepp February 6, 2018 Cape Town, South Africa, a city of 4 million people, is just weeks away from becoming the world’s first major city to run entirely out of water — but of course, it won’t be the last. South Africa’s second-largest […]
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Dangerously Low on Water, Cape Town Now Faces ‘Day Zero’
Cape Town may seem a world away but it is not. Climate change is to blame for the drought in Cape Town and similar situations will abound near and far if we are not mindful of the limits of our planet in warmer world. Cape Town is a city of 4 million people. Homes with […]
Soylent Green as a Warning
Soylent Green is a 1973 film starring Charlton Heston and takes place in 2022, which is a dystopian nightmare. Greenhouse gasses have skyrocketed causing the environment to be unbearable – hot, humid, polluted – miserable all the time. Poverty and overpopulation has people starving piled up sleeping in doorways and the streets. The lack of […]
Water, water everywhere…
And not a drop to drink according to NASA. Water conservation and backing off on aquifer drilling is a must do right now. There’s no replacing water that is created naturally from rain and snowfall once it is consumed without spending excruciating amounts of money on desalinization plants and treatment facilities. A smarter move would […]