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đŸ“º This Drought is Worse Than You Think | Chris Martenson - Peak Prosperitywww.youtube.com/watch?v=2PNzI4ifLww
35 sats \ 7 comments \ @cointastical 15 Jun 2022 bitcoin
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @cointastical OP 15 Jun 2022
Might the corn grown in the Midwest (which has either just minimal drought, or no drought) be made available to the ranchers in the areas suffering drought to feed their herds?
Nope!!! It's going to be used for additional ethanol production -- beyond that which it normally would!!
Normally E15 is banned in the summer months due to the fact that burning it increases smog. In the name of reducing atmospheric emissions of a non-pollutant—the CO2 emitted from burning gasoline—the president is waiving longstanding anti-pollution regulations to allow increased smog this summer.
Biden's Mandates For Increased Production Of Ethanol Are Wrong-Headed https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-mandates-increased-production-ethanol-are-wrong-headed https://www.theepochtimes.com/bidens-mandates-for-increased-production-of-ethanol-are-wrong-headed_4527241.html
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical OP 15 Jun 2022
The only way things make sense is if you understand that they want you dead.
Until we understand and accept that as fact, we will do nothing to prevent them from continuing to try to kill us.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical OP 15 Jun 2022
"When countries import food, they're not actually importing food so much as they're importing water. When you import a ton of wheat you're actually importing a thousand tons of water. Cause that's how much water it takes to grow and process a ton of wheat."
Half of the water [from the Colorado River Basin] goes to grow feed for livestock and cattle.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @nkmg1c_ventures 15 Jun 2022
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu
This is the link he was getting the visualization / data from, pretty wild.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical OP 15 Jun 2022
Nice find!!
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 15 Jun 2022
Long term there is no way around large scale seawater desalination imo. The middle east does it successfully for years now.
But in the short there there are lot's of things to improve before that. The misallocation you mentioned is a prime example for that.
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical OP 15 Jun 2022
Well, in California they could build additional reservoirs in the Northern part of the state to hold water that currently is far in excess of what they have the capacity to store, and goes into the Pacific as a result. It's an anti-growth state, and attempts to look at building more reservoirs has been shot down due to protest from environmentalists. For example, the push to build the Sites reservoir started over a dozen years ago, and has gone nowhere: https://norcalwater.org/efficient-water-management/sites-reservoir/
In central California, there are underground storage basins. The concern is that this has been possible only through Saudi investment.
https://www.abc10.com/article/weather/underground-water-storage-potential-california/103-def523b0-df1c-4cab-a806-44f5051b3cee
But whether doing this for continued irrigation of crops makes sense, I'm not the expert to say that. I suspect some areas, particularly those using water from the Colorado rivers, will see less agriculture.
In the Great Plains, there is a minimal amount of aquifer recharge happening. There's potential for a canal (with a lot of pumping), to move water from where there's way more than enough to where they draw from the aquifers.
https://coyotegulch.blog/2022/05/22/subterranean-ogallala-blues-bigpivots/
https://myfarmlife.com/life-on-the-land/saving-the-ogallala-how-to-reverse-its-decline/
I've no idea what happens next with that. The current political climate would rather have us learn to eat the bugs than to see water resources go to increasing production for us meat eaters.
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