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Southwestern China is facing an unprecedented drought amid a monthslong heat wave that is causing the Yangtze River to dry up. The Yangtze River normally supports about a third of the countrys population through hydropower and crop irrigation.
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China's Yangtze River Dries Up Amid Unprecedented Drought - NBC News (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Aug 2022
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The earth is on fire, and the band played on. We're fucked. Go see a glacier now; limited edition.
Evolve Dammit
Aug 2022
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Richard D
(8,754 posts)1. This is so hard to imagine. It's a huge river. Was anyway nt
Evolve Dammit
(16,733 posts)2. The earth is on fire, and the band played on. We're fucked. Go see a glacier now; limited edition.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. After decades when most could ignore and deny, the future's here.
I never thought I and mine would get to live into such interesting times. Didn't count on mass embrace of planetwide disaster. In the U.S.!
China's water problems are everyone else's too, of course. The sources of 10 major rivers (including the Yangtse) that flow through even more nations are in China, which controls the giant "Third Pole" reservoir of ice and snow in the Himalaya region, our planet's third largest reserve of fresh water after the two polar regions. And of course, it's melting. China's building dams in the Himalayas like mad...
Handler
(336 posts)4. I've thought for years this global disaster was on the distant horizon.
Seems I was very wrong, it is happening now. We have passed the tipping point.