Tag Archives: drought

UK Freshwater supplies should prioritise UK residents

Posted on June 1, 2026 by borderslynn

Back in 2024 The Guardian found this out: Huge foreign conglomerates like Coca-Cola, Nestle Waters, Sources Alma and Highland Spring are now extracting billions of litres of freshwater from aquifers around Britain to sell as bottled water, it has been … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, CocaCola, data Centres, drought, foreign corporations, Kent, residents with no water supply, shortage of freshwater, Sidcup, stressed communities, Sussex | Leave a comment

Chickpea shortage

Posted on May 16, 2026 by borderslynn

Here in the UK I may soon be unable to buy my staple food of organic chickpea flour and bags of chickpeas in quantity, due to a world shortage. An AI search produced this: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/chickpea-production-by-country Abstract Today, the importance of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged chickpea shortage, desalination, disrupted trade, drought, floods, global economy, groundwater draining, high oil prices, illegal war on Iran, illegal war on Ukraine, infrastructure, land sinking, laying new cables, Meta, Persian Gulf, Russia, Somalia, starvation, Strait of Hormuz, water wars | Leave a comment

When there is no rain

Posted on January 17, 2026 by borderslynn

The Iranians suffering seems eternal. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/how-day-zero-water-shortages-in-iran-are-fuelling-protests Details of research of causes: Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water Publication Date: 2025/12/06 Source: wired Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged air pollution, climate change, conflict, destruction of high culture, drought, emissions, end of civilisation, middle east, misery, oil, PM2.5, protests Iran, ratifying Climate Change Agreement, sanctions, slaughter of innocents, suffering, war | Leave a comment

Climate change, sea levels rising, countries sinking

Posted on August 29, 2025 by borderslynn

In past blogs I have written about land which sank beneath the oceans after the Ice Age melt began over 10,000 years ago. Now the world knows the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Arctic melt, Boreal Forest, burn scars, climate change evidence, datacenters, drought, emissions, energy production, fooding, fossil fuels, glacier melt, human activity induced apocalyptic fires, human suffering, indigenous peoples, infrastructure destruction, loss of home, methane, migration, natural cycke of fires, permafrost melt, petroleum industry, pristine land, recognition of harm, responsibility, sea level rises, shrinking resources, sinking land, sovereignty, submerged land, survival, survival of humanity, threat, wildfires | Leave a comment

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Posted on January 12, 2025 by borderslynn

As fierce and unprecedented wildfires bring calamity to thousands of people, thousands of gallons of toxic retardant are dropped from special air tankers on the racing fires below to try to stop the fires spreading to valuable property. And, as … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged air tankers, building in resilience, building materials, climate change, community, drought, emissions warming climate, eucalyptus tree fire risk, fire resistant homes, first responders, forests, fossil fuels, freshwater, Grenfell Tower, groundwater, human habitation, human vulnerability, hurricane force winds, inferno, insurance nonsense, nature, opportunities, pacific, plastics, portugal, retardant drops, Santa Ana winds, soil, threats, tree burning emissions, warming oceans, weather patterns, wild space, wildfires, wildlife | Leave a comment

El Nino 2023 to 2024: Cocoa Beans, Chocolate shortage

Posted on October 7, 2024 by borderslynn

El Niño—the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), our planet’s single largest natural source of year-to-year variations in seasonal climate—has been disrupting climate in the tropics and beyond since May 2023, likely contributing to many months of record-high global ocean temperatures, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged adapting to change, climate, crop failure, drought, el niño, floods, food insecurity, fossil fuels, increasing prices, job losses, la Niña, opportunities, oscillations, transitional, warming planet | Leave a comment

Building in Resilience to Climate Catastrophe

Posted on June 24, 2024 by borderslynn

After wildfires destroyed homes across California, innovative, but expensive, intensely fire-resistant homes have been designed. Some are already in place in the still sparsely rehomed community of Paradise. These are modular, pre clad built homes and 12 month round produce … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged acceleration, adaptation, air conditioning, catastrophe, climate change, desalination, design, drought, emissions, engineering, extreme heat, FEMA, First Responder shortage, flood defences., flooding barrier landscape, fossil fuel, Hawick, heat stroke, invention, Mediterranean drought, National Parks, osmosis, power grids, reduce emissions, research, safety net, Scottish Borders, solutions, sudden death, survival techniques, upgrades, US, Vigliotti | Leave a comment

Green, green grass of home

Posted on June 11, 2024 by borderslynn

In the book, ‘Before It’s Gone’ by Jonathan Vigliotti, I read of the consequences of extensive loss of whole communities in Western States of America, plus the memorable loss of the old community of Lahaina in Hawaii, due to out … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1.5 degree limit, anti climate change lobbyists, carbon capture, carbon mapping, combustible, conservation, drought, fauna, flora, fossil fuel adverts, fossil fuels, grass, greenhouse effect, hat dome, heating world, Helheim glacier, nature, ocean warming, oceans conveyor belt., scotland, sea level rising, Thwaites glacier, trees, wildfires | Leave a comment

The Human Meteorite

Posted on November 18, 2023 by borderslynn

Back in 2010, this article about Sudan explained the different viewpoints of nomadic herders and Arab farmers, their belief systems about land use brought them into conflict. Of the five mass extinctions we described in Chapter 2, probably the most … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africans, Anthropocene theory, arabs, climate change, conflict, Darfur, diamonds, drought, egypt, elites, farmers, fertile land, fresh water, genocide, human harm, human sabotage, impact of human activity, Iran, mining, nomads, proxy wars, Russia, UAE, ukraine, Wagner, war crimes | Leave a comment

Desalination, long term solution to Drought

Posted on December 26, 2022 by borderslynn

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-who-rely-on-desalination.html From the above map we learn Saudi Arabia has the most desalination plants in the world: “eight plants using the reverse osmosis technology and 12 using the multi-stage distillation process. The country has the largest floating desalination plant in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, conflict, desalination, desertification, drought, famine, food security, multi-stage flash, reverse osmosis, solutions | 2 Comments

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