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Scorched Earth: Severe Drought Devastates Southern Africa
https://scitechdaily.com/ ^ | APRIL 25, 2024 | EMILY CASSIDY, NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY

Posted on 04/26/2024 7:18:40 PM PDT by Jonty30

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If whites were still in charge, they probably could have engineered solutions, but they are not in charge.
1 posted on 04/26/2024 7:18:40 PM PDT by Jonty30
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When I was in high school 50 years ago, we heard nothing but stories of the massive drought and famine in Africa. Nothing has changed.


2 posted on 04/26/2024 7:20:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Paging Bob Geldof.....


3 posted on 04/26/2024 7:21:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The difference is that there are technological solutions that didn’t exist back then. Like desalination plants, for example.


4 posted on 04/26/2024 7:22:08 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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Farming gets real. It's not a product of politics. Neither is water treatment, electricity, welding, plumbing,

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

5 posted on 04/26/2024 7:23:39 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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Desalination takes 1) a functioning technocracy and 2) abundant, cheap energy. Neither exist in Africa.


6 posted on 04/26/2024 7:23:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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South Africa was a functioning technocracy at one time, 30 years ago.


7 posted on 04/26/2024 7:25:04 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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8 posted on 04/26/2024 7:25:29 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (VOTE BIDEN 2024! Too senile to stand trial but good enough to run the country!)
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Gee whiz. They only have what, 1000 miles of coastline? No opportunity for desalination? Maybe they lack the energy capacity to run them.


9 posted on 04/26/2024 7:46:37 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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They were once a nuclear power, thirty years ago,


10 posted on 04/26/2024 7:50:45 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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Meanwhile, there are flash floods in other parts of the continent.


11 posted on 04/26/2024 7:58:28 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Actually until the last five or ten years.

A few of the other European colonies in Africa did well until abandoning them.


12 posted on 04/26/2024 8:03:41 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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>>could have engineered solutions

If only there were technologies for drilling water wells for irrigation needs.

/s

13 posted on 04/26/2024 8:18:36 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Apparently, they actually have lots of water, but it’s not allocated properly by the government.

Surprise!

https://theconversation.com/johannesburgs-water-crisis-is-getting-worse-expert-explains-why-the-taps-keep-running-dry-in-south-africas-biggest-city-223926


14 posted on 04/26/2024 8:24:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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Desalination takes 1) a functioning technocracy and 2) abundant, cheap energy. Neither exist in Africa.

Sounds like California,

15 posted on 04/26/2024 8:46:55 PM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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“In South Africa, the government gives a free basic allowance of 6,000 litres per month to every household.”

Anyone see a problem here? /s


16 posted on 04/26/2024 10:05:26 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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Umm, maybe Sam Kinison!


17 posted on 04/26/2024 10:18:41 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood )
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More migrants for us!


18 posted on 04/26/2024 10:47:36 PM PDT by Angelino97
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This is more broadly Southern Africa than South Africa:

“But CHC researchers analyzing CHIRPS data found that February 2024 was the driest February in the 40-year data record for an area spanning much of Zambia, Zimbabwe, southeastern Angola, and northern Botswana.”


19 posted on 04/26/2024 10:51:22 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Famine had all but been eradicated from earth thanks to US agritech. It’s one of the greatest accomplishments of modern man.

Crop yields are up between 800-1200% in 30yrs.

From drought resistant crops to simplistic devices employed to capture morning dew it is an incredible never heralded accomplishment.

It takes extreme conditions to flare up at this point.


20 posted on 04/27/2024 12:13:20 AM PDT by Freest Republican
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