More Resource Doom – World Demand Will Exceed Available Fresh Water Supplies By 50%
In less than 20 years, it is estimated that demand for fresh water will exceed the world’s supply by over 50 percent. Vanishing Water Supply
The news just keeps getting better and better. Read this article first, and then ask yourself, what happens when we reach 100% of the fresh water consumption? That will occur at some point long before 20 years. Then what? Then the water wars will be fought in earnest (not that they aren’t now).
Agricultural demands (food production) need to be dramatically altered long before then. This will require abandoning the existing methods of food production for water conservation techniques. But not in 20 years. This is a widely optimistic and totally unrealistic claim. Critical shortages of essential resources will have revealed themselves long before then.
The resulting resource wars and population dieoff will make today’s ‘problems’ and issues look like Disneyland.
Peak water, peak energy, peak climate, peak resources — is there a pattern emerging here? Of course there is, it’s called peak population and peak civilization. Human demand upon the natural resource LIMITS has far exceeded the planet’s carrying capacity. It was inevitable that we would hit peak ‘everything’.
Prepare yourselves for a drastically reduced future of EVERYTHING.
Update: Wheat is up 285% since the year 2000. More Wheat Needed To Meet Demand (.mp3 file).
The bad news: die-off happens.
The good news: die-off happens.
The ugly news: it will happen here (to you).
Plan accordingly. If you fail to plan you plan to fail.
The oil is obvious and now.
The food is next. These recent price increases are just the beginning as the government (and their behind the scenes global manipulators) print money to conquer the world and turn food into fuel.
Water is not far behind. I did papers on water in school and used to think the next big war was going to be over it. Live and learn.
Insanity rules. Nothing to do for the herd. Prepare for yourself and loved ones.
Peace
Den
OH! OH! OH! this is too much for me…..
I have other things to concern myself with:
why,Al Gore has won the Nobel peace prize and will the top weekly question ( Does Sarah Silverman Suck?) ever be answered? and I have my weekly football pool picks to take care of…
God, next thing you’ll be telling me is that the magnetic poles are going to shift…
Be seeing you…
Second, all of us here in the mega doom community are certain that TPTB are going to pull the plug next Tuesday (about tea time). Reading anything that extrapolates trends out beyond the next couple of years is utterly pointless.
My well or spring going dry is relevant to me. Some other country’s equivelent of the Ogalalla Aquifier spitting mud is a non issue. When industrial production and bid ag tank from the coming bazzooness Mexico will get the Colorado River back…
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/14321300/
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a dry Allatoona lake bed, wonder where the fish went? Click on the Lake Lanier (a man made reservoir) and see that from Atlanta to other users down stream on the Chattahoochee river, to satisfy just a few people and businesses they could empty the lake in 2 to 3 months. The tributary’s are not flowing enough so the “Corp of Imaginer’s” make up by releasing more from the lake (min of 5,000 cfs) to “fulfill down stream requirements”. Gotta follow the rules and nature be damned I guess, this reminds me of the movie “Idiocracy” problem is I can’t turn it off.
A news link.
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/
stories/20071010/localnews/197298.shtml
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/
stories/2007/10/10/wateruse_1011.html
Just posting this because I did not think we had a lakes drying up like Lake Chad in Africa, but then I see that Lake Mead is down almost a hundred feet out west and California may put water rationing in place soon. Time to go find a happy place for a while.
Lake Allatoona has been a mud puddle for nearly 15 years now, and my grandparents who built their retirement home on “new” Lake Lanier in the late 1960’s saw their section of the lake turn into a grassy meadow with rusting boat docks by the late 1980’s (the lake was so low consistently). Kali has the gist of it, oil, food, and then water (in rapid, self-reinforcing series….how do you pump groundwater without cheap energy? How do you grow food without water?)