The Great Salt Lake is set to disappear within 5 years

[Elim Garak]

Without a “dramatic increase” in inflow by 2024, experts warn the lake is set to disappear in the next five years.

“Its disappearance could cause immense damage to Utah’s public health, environment, and economy,” the authors wrote in the report. “The choices we make over the next few months will affect our state and ecosystems throughout the West for decades to come.”


The Great Salt Lake, plagued by excessive water use and a worsening climate crisis, has dropped to record-low levels two years in a row. The lake is now 19 feet below its natural average level and has entered “uncharted territory” after losing 73% of its water and exposing 60% of its lakebed, the report notes.

 

[Satsui no Hadou]

Stan a system that necessitates the perpetuation of the myth of infinite growth, crehs

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Capitalism CACs are a virus

 

[Mike809]

This about to cause a refugee crisis.

All those maga people better move to florida.

 

[Who Not How]

Those cacs will be coming to a state near you ready to use up your resources next. The way climate change is going, I can see everyone starting to head to the same states, living on top of each other like Mad Max shooting at each other for a bucket of water.

 

[Remote]

Well, perhaps conservatives will actually try to conserve something for their own good.

 

[smitty22]

They said the dodo bird had disappeared too but @Regular_P still around here chirping

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Stan a system that necessitates the perpetuation of the myth of infinite growth, crehs

EVERY time we point out shyt like this the bootlickers come in and say, "It's not capitalism's fault". Even though capitalism literally requires that resources be used up at ever-increasing pace or the system will collapse.

That used to be a "feature" because they said that it "spurred development". They haven't realized that they've taken it too far and are too attached to the system to see that it has to be junked or we're screwed.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

The great salt lake smells like shyt anyway, good riddance.

 

[Phantum]

Look at the glass half full. More space for condos?

 

[Micky Mikey]

Look at the glass half full. More space for condos?

That'll be the least of people's worries by the time it disappears

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Most of the south and west coasts will be unlivable in about 30 40 years

 

[kdslittlebro]

“The choices we make over the next few months will affect our state and ecosystems throughout the West for decades to come.”

They’ll make the wrong choice(s), or no choice(s), and say “there’s nothing we could do”.

 

[Wild self]

Most of the south and west coasts will be unlivable in about 30 40 years

The south is about to face temperatures upwards of 130 degrees in the Summertime. Middle East type hot

The Planet is about to go through changes that capitalism never faced before.

 

[kdslittlebro]

The Planet is about to go through changes that capitalism never faced before.

Earth ain’t gonna let us fukk her up beyond repair nature will win out in us vs. it

It’s all about today; tomorrow is the next man’s problem. That’s just the way the world works, humanity is way too far gone