How Will Lives Change in a Drying World?

In my continuing series of podcasts about how people are trying get along with everything that's happening everywhere. This week, I tackle the worsening fresh water crisis world wide.

Yes, I said world wide. Humans are getting desperate and taking fresh water from every source they can get, both above ground and below. The scary part is how they're pumping out all of these underground aquifers around the world and these sources are not being naturally replenished.

I ask the question, what happens when the water finally runs out? And it will as humans keep doing what they're doing at the pace they are doing it.

The loss of fresh water around the world is one of the main drivers of global migration, which is causing tensions between the migrants and the citizens living in the countries that the migrants are migrating to.

As I talk about more in detail on my Substack page, these tensions are escalating all over the world, and as the loss of water creates more food insecurities, the more these tensions will increase. Gaza is just a small example of what's probably coming in the next twenty five to fifty years.

With more wars coming over the horizon, the propensity for more authoritarians to take over national governments will increase. Trump is our latest example.

The loss of life due to the loss of water, which is needed to grow food, is going to ramp up into the billions of humans who will die out eventually directly related to global warming, which is drying out vast land masses in the middle latitudes right now, today.

I add in several news stories to reinforce all of this, plus a couple of stories about global migration. One of my sources has some YouTube videos made by a couple of famous climate scientists, who both tell the world that humans have pushed the planet warming beyond the point of no return.

We the humans on this planet can expect to see average mean air temps of 2 C in the next few years, and 3 C to 4 C by the end of this century. 3 and 4 C is unsustainable for the mammals of this planet. This is also unsustainable for the majority of the plant life across the planet. As the the humans suffer through the loss of water, and land to grow food, they will continue to try and migrate to regions that do have fresh water and food, and the people living there will fight back harder.

I will post the YouTube video at the bottom of this blog post for anyone who wants to learn more.