The world’s largest sources of freshwater will be severely depleted by 2029, with catastrophic consequences for all of humanity.
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Timebomb:
Regions most sensitive to changes in climate include humid and wet areas, such as the Amazon, Indonesia and parts of central Africa. In some of these areas, it could take *less* than 10 years for climate change to fully impact groundwater flows. carbonbrief.org/climate-change…
Groundwater response times:
The map below:
Yellow shows areas where groundwater is likely to fully respond to stresses in under 10 years. ⚠️
Light green shows where the response time is 10-100 years.
Areas with the shortest groundwater response times include wet, humid regions: the Amazon, the Congo Basin, Indonesia, and low-lying regions, such as the Asian mega-deltas and the Florida Everglades.
2 billion living with absolute water scarcity by 2025👇
Most over-stressed is the Arabian Aquifer System, which supplies water to 60 million people in Saudi Arabia & Yemen; the Indus Basin aquifer in northwest India & Pakistan is the second-most threatened; the Murzuk-Djado Basin in northern Africa the third. nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/w…
Today:
🔺1.9 billion people live in countries facing extremely high water stress
e.g India, Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE
🔺Another 2.5 billion people face high levels of water stress
The likelihood of conflict:
'most regions of the world face significant hydropolitical vulnerabilities that, in a number of hot-spot basins, may turn into serious water conflict in the decades to come'
BREAKING: with some form of collapse now underway, scientists say there has been a terrifying lack of progress on stopping the annihilation of species and ecosystems crucial for human survival.. meanwhile, in totally unrelated news, corporate profits are hitting record highs 🧵
"..government and big corporations.. the blame lies on them."
Next to nothing done to curb extinction since 2022
Absolutely horrifying projections from 2019-2020 are turning out to be more or less accurate it would seem. Collapse has been with us for a while and is now becoming more and more obvious.
BREAKING: climate scientists warn imminent collapse of the AMOC (the major ocean current system) will in turn trigger collapse in the Amazon Rainforest 🧵
1. phenomenon could cause irreversible collapse of forest cover
'climate change triggered by the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Cell, combined with changes in land use linked to deforestation, would cause irreversible damage to the biome'olhardigital.com.br/2024/11/01/cie…
1b. 'areas in the north of the region would be strongly impacted by the reduction in rainfall' olhardigital.com.br/2024/11/01/cie…
And..
1.5°C plus degradation, fires & deforestation: tipping point for south, center & east of the Amazon - 50% to 70% of the forest gone google.com/amp/s/news.mon…
BREAKING: shocking new climate consensus revealed as more than 9 out of 10 scientists agree all viable paths to stay below hellish 2°C of warming under capitalism are now gone 🧵
1/We need global mobilization on a scale and pace never seen before or the 1.5C goal will soon be dead and well below 2C will take its place in the intensive care unit'
BREAKING: horror and disgust as negotiators at COP16 remove call to transition away from fossil fuels from the UN nature summit's draft agreement 🧵
1. 'A coalition of nearly 150 campaign groups published a joint letter to negotiators calling on them to halt new oil and gas activity in nature-rich areas like the Amazon rainforest and the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines.'