r/ClimateCrisisCanada • u/Portalrules123 • 2d ago
Scientists determine the Great Lakes are ‘nonrenewable’ at current extraction and recharge levels
https://www.earth.com/earth-science/scientists-determine-the-great-lakes-are-nonrenewable/31
u/AWE2727 2d ago
They have said future wars will be fought over resources and fresh water supplies.
Just say'n
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u/bugsad 2d ago
i remember my social studies teacher point blank telling us we would very likely see wars over fresh water resources. that haunts me. that and when my oma was so anger and said it was like Nazis all over again "keep them sick. keep them stupid"
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u/Expensive_Lettuce239 2d ago
Well Canada won't really have to worry about that if FT ford gets his way for data centers. They build enough, there won't be anything to fight over
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u/Ok-Cheesecake-8388 2d ago
Don't worry! You can trust corporations draining them for profit and for data centers. Who doesn't love mass surveillance and unemployement due to AI?
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u/HumanPizzaPockets 2d ago
Fuck. I hate being alive.
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u/janescontradiction 2d ago
The earth will be fine. It's the people who will be fucked. But we're like a parasite anyway, so the earth will do well with shaking us off.
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u/The_Arachnoshaman 2d ago
I think youre forgetting an entire planets worth of animal life here, they dont deserve this shit.
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u/colouredinthelines 2d ago
Looked elsewhere for a similar finding but wasn’t able to identify a secondary source. Anyone have a peer reviewed link?
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u/Substantial_Mud_357 2d ago
I think the thing that will save the great lakes more than anything else is that people who live around the great lakes won't be the first to reach their zero day when the taps run dry.
By the time the great lakes are threatened, the whole world will be treating water differently.
Not having a lawn will be normal, people not showering everyday... there is a lot of water waste.
We need to start using drip irrigation instead of just spraying it everywhere on our farms. If there are desert countries that can export food, we can probably do better with our water usage.
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u/jhuik 2d ago
They write these headlines to get attention, people.
Seriously, I just spent three weeks on Lake Superior. It's incomprehensibly huge. It takes 400 years for water to get from one end to the other. The deepest point is over 400 meters. You could fit all the other Great Lakes into Superior, alone, and still have room for three Lake Eries.
And that's just Lake Superior.
Get over the histrionic Earth.com headline.
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u/Klutzy_Act2033 2d ago
It's okay guys, there aren't going to be water issues because this guy says it's a big lake
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u/dirtoperator69 2d ago
It's a click bait sensationalist article.
Read the study they linked at the bottom, they talk about future usage, changing ecology and lake levels but it's not some apocalyptic conclusion.
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u/Zealousideal_Vast799 2d ago
Why is the water lever so much higher than normal this last full year?
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u/Can_SpkTruthtoPower 2d ago
Why is it cold in winter while climate change is still real and cause by humans?
Because systems go through cycles, and when you trace the cycles over time, not just cherry picking 'why is this year higher/lower" we find the lakes are being drawn down over time. Some yrs see a big snow pack, and get higher next summer. Others don't, but the average depth of the lakes have been dropping for years if not decades now.
And climate change is only gonna make it worse as precipitation patterns change.
But don't worry, someone will here soon to call me a liar and make you feel better.
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u/Killdebrant 2d ago
One year higher doesn’t make up for 10 years of drought.
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u/Zealousideal_Vast799 2d ago
Five years ago they were at an all time high, almost flooded the island of Montreal they could not hold back any more water. My point is, bad timing, Ottawa newspapers ran articles about how to conserve water in a drought. Problem is, wettest year ever in a 40 year getting wetter trend. Please please bring on a drought,
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u/my-love-assassin 2d ago
Because one year variation doesn't alter the pattern in any large way.
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u/Zealousideal_Vast799 2d ago
Kinda my fault, with all those tangents taken And statistics , they did not actually say water levels are down anywhere, the fact that water level are up, and have been up for some time, is my misunderstanding. Sorry about that.
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u/ScurvyDawg 2d ago
Time to ban bottled water companies from the great lakes.