100 year drought menaces Southeast

drought swamp

Blame it on global warming.

It’s the obvious modern liberal thing to do, and one never wants to jump to unresearched conclusions, but the more once-in-a-lifetime disasters we have bunched together right when the scientists say they will happen, the harder it is to ignore the urgency to take pressing measures to mitigate climate change.

At the current rate Atlanta will run out of water in 90-120 days. The entire Southeast has a drought unmatched in scale by any region in American history. The NYTimes reports on the gravity of the situation and the passionate pleas that public officials are making to get residents to conserve water.


Posted on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 at 11:16 am | Tagged in Global Warming, Sustainability, Water | posted by Marc

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