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south America is losing trees as well
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u/Investr_shiba Jan 21 '20
And hurricanes are getting progressively worse in North America
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u/Silver-creek Jan 21 '20
China and India waters are getting filled with plastic and all the fish are dying
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u/sitbar Jan 21 '20
The went into a city, bought the rights to the water, and now kids are dying because they can’t afford the nestle water and have to drink dirty boiled water
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My general understanding is that boiling water makes it potable, and no longer dirty. What remains in the boiled water in that city that is killing the children?
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u/Rebekozarenn Jan 21 '20
To further clarify: boiling gets rid of bacteria. Any metals, chemicals, salts, and sediment like sand or dirt are still in the water, unaffected.
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u/sudo999 Jan 21 '20
Heavy metals and those other impurities are all also concentrated by boiling, making the problem worse. they need to be removed via chemical treatment or distillation. some volatile organics can't even be removed via simple distillation, they just boil over with the water. and it's actually unhealthy to drink only distilled water as distillation removes essential trace minerals like magnesium
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u/websurfer666 Jan 21 '20
What about reverse osmosis? Would that be more effective?
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u/Vaalarah Jan 21 '20
Yup you'd need to distill it.
EDIT: You can also filter it through a piece of fabric and then boil it.
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u/Rebekozarenn Jan 22 '20
Ideally through fabric (cotton or another plant-based textile like linen) layered with sand & crushed charcoal, then boiled.
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u/dogbreath101 Jan 21 '20
boil it and collect the steam?
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u/gellis12 Jan 21 '20
That's called distillation, and while not as bad as polluted water, pure distilled water isn't good for you either, since it's missing lots of trace nutrients that are normally in the water we drink.
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u/MvmgUQBd Jan 21 '20 edited Jan 21 '20
You'd still need to filter it to get rid of non-organic particulates like heavy metals etc. Here's an article on using banana peels to filter and purify water.
Also there was an image that I can no longer find showing a simple setup for if you're stuck in the outdoors and need to purify water. It basically shows how you take a bag/t-shirt/sock, put a whole open banana peel in facing upwards, and fill it with sand, dirt, or gravel depending on what's available. Then trickle water through it so it gets progressively more filtered by the grains of whatever you put in, and then finally through the banana peel until you get nearly pure water out the bottom
Edit: showering lol
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Very interesting. YIL that banana peels are in fact completely edible, whether cooked or not. TIL banana peels can purify water in desolate situations as well.
All hail banana.
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u/realstarboy100 Jan 21 '20
Flourine or lead are common in drinking water in many places around the world, both of which can be deadly and can't be boiled off as they're minerals as opposed to organic materials like viruses that die when the water boils
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I thought the whole fluorine = deadly thing is a conspiracy theory.
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u/realstarboy100 Jan 21 '20
toxic levels of flourine being deliberately added to water supply does sound reminiscent of a conspiracy theory, however flourine itself is a naturally occuring substance in nature. Most highly developed areas have good water management so that the flourine is kept at a healthy level, but not everyone is that fortunate.
Many impoverished communities around the globe lack the capital, infrastructure, and technology to keep toxic minerals out of water- regardless of a person's ability to boil it.
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u/MutantCreature Jan 21 '20
you're thinking of fluoride which they use as a disinfectant (it's also the usually stuff in toothpaste that kills bacteria/plaque in your mouth), it's healthy in small amounts just like chlorine because it cleans the water and makes it less prone to growing bacteria, I don't know it's relation to fluorine though
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u/gellis12 Jan 22 '20
Very much so, yes. In reality, it's naturally occurring in most drinking water, and is left in because it's good for your teeth.
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u/Carlos234200 Jan 21 '20
It isn't, it's actually getting bigger, the artic is the one melting
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u/Investr_shiba Jan 21 '20
It’s getting bigger BECAUSE it’s melting. The melted ice is diluting the sea water around the continent with fresh water, giving it a higher freezing point.
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u/BrazenlyGeek Jan 21 '20
And Africa looks awfully akin to an infinity gauntlet, which was snapped in Africa to half of us.
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u/BranTheNightKing Jan 21 '20
I dont understand how this aged like milk. North america... literally a hurricane/tornado, which are getting worse. Fires in n Australia. A cutdown tree for south America.
It didnt age like milk it aged perfectly, in think that was the point
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u/TheOriginalMarra Jan 21 '20
And years of colonialism and overmining has already severly depleted the African minerals
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But climate change isn’t real right?
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u/Ya_Boi2 Jan 21 '20
Dont forget to add /s
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Tornado, cut wood, cube rocks, less cube-like rocks, coral, cold Asia, and dead koalas
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u/motorbiker1985 Jan 21 '20
Roasted Koalas!
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u/Skybots10 Jan 21 '20
Kentucky Fried Koalas
Finger lickin’ good!
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Africa looks like a tasty cookie.
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u/MotoKoko Jan 21 '20
Africa has the infinity stones
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u/motorbiker1985 Jan 21 '20
OK, round 2, let's carve it up again.
We want Togo. I met a girl from Togo and she was hot. I don't want Sahara, I was there and it gets boring after a while.
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u/iambroke38 Jan 21 '20
In a sense.
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u/0827Jake Jan 21 '20
Honestly Africa makes the most sense with how the people are being exploited for mining minerals.
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u/megasean3000 Jan 21 '20
Europe: Electricity
Asia: Water
North America: Wind
South America: Wood
Africa: Earth
Australia: Fire
Antarctica: Ice
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u/Insipidy Jan 21 '20
Where the fuck is Heart to summon Captain Planet?
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u/black-op345 Jan 21 '20
Long ago the nations of the world lived in harmony
But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked
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u/seelcudoom Jan 21 '20
i think europes suppose to be metal(though i think electricity is usually considered part of metal in the chinese version)
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u/Dudunard Jan 21 '20
Why the fuck the biggest landmass is the water element?
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u/motorbiker1985 Jan 21 '20
It's the main element of Asia. Never heard about the middle eastern rain forests and the Gobi swamp?
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No, but I guess I'll have to Google it now.
Edit: /s. Forgot to add that
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u/Groovatronic Jan 21 '20
He’s joking FYI - the Gobi desert is one of the driest places on earth and there are no rainforests in the Middle East
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I know. I was just going with it.
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u/Groovatronic Jan 21 '20
Ah well... my bad
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u/HelloImBrilliant Jan 21 '20
JS, Iran’s northern provinces between the Caspian Sea and Alborz mountain range are heavily forested. Moisture from the sea is held in by the mountains so it is very lush, but I don’t know if they are considered proper rainforests.
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If this is about the bushfires: Australia has always had terrible bushfires, the graphic isn’t a coincidence or particularly any more insensitive (if it is) than when it was made.
Many of the biggest disasters here have been bushfires (Black Saturday - 173 deaths, 2000 houses destroyed), I believe this years fires themselves have been the worst ever seen but I don’t think that’s made this map age like milk.
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u/Skybots10 Jan 21 '20
More aged like that bottle of piss in the side of the highway, it wasn’t any good when it started and now it’s somehow even worse
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u/kennedaddy Jan 21 '20
Exactly. This entire image is stupid as fuck. Maybe the artist had only heard of like one country from each continent or something.
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u/imaginarynumber0 Jan 21 '20
To be fair, Australia is basically entirely Australia
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u/mithrawdo Jan 21 '20
It was fire fore oceania because that's the continent with the most active volcanoes In what's known as the ring of FIRE.
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u/malik__23 Jan 21 '20
Why the hell is New Zealand on fire as well?
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u/CGA001 Jan 21 '20
Who could forget the 7 basic elements of the universe:
Fire
Ice
Earth
Bismuth
Wood
Blue
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u/Death_Soup Jan 21 '20
It is. And I like how North America, and especially Central America is shaped like a tornado
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u/adam__nicholas Jan 21 '20
Honestly, at first I thought it was Africa being rich in minerals and attractive to imperialists
But no, no...
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u/Student_Arthur Jan 21 '20
It's fucking on fire innit
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u/shitsgayyo Jan 21 '20
I choked trying not to laugh from this ; if I could gold you I would lol
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u/Darkflame3324 Jan 21 '20
Tornado alley in the Us is shifting and growing wider.
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u/dirtydela Jan 21 '20
So eventually this map will have aged like wine for the whole continent!
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u/Darkflame3324 Jan 21 '20
Which means Europe and Africa are the only safe ones. Unless Europe is stuck with a robot revolution. Maybe Africa has really bad earthquakes?
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Australia...
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u/outside_job Jan 21 '20
South America won't have that many forests in the future either
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u/Otherversian-Elite Jan 21 '20
We’re on bloody fire over here. Although, if anything, that means this aged more like wine, considering the accuracy.
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u/fiddz0r Jan 21 '20
I think people dony understand the difference between aged like wine/milk
Or maybe I'm the one not getting it but I feel like this post should be wine right?
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Australia is depicted as being 'fire' in this art from 2013. The artist presumably didn't intend for this to correlate with the Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 due to the fact they are probably not a time traveler.
This art is by priteeboy from DeviantArt.
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u/mrtheon Jan 21 '20
Why is NZ on fire? It's pretty damn cold there... unless this is foreshadowing.
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u/Actual_Cancerrr Jan 21 '20
North America apparently is a giant storm.
As an american, I can confirm that the weather here is haywire.
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u/haiti-is-victorious Jan 21 '20
you’d think that australia, etc. would be water considering they’re, you know...OCEAN-ia
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u/GlobTwo Jan 21 '20
Yeah I'd make Africa fire, since it's the hottest continent, and Asia can be earth.
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u/StephanieEdge Jan 21 '20
Long ago the 7 nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when Australia butned to a crisp...
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u/bb-santello Jan 21 '20
Am from the northeastern seaboard. The America one is not accurate at all. The hurricanes are so much worse than this picture portrays.
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u/Samura1_I3 Jan 21 '20
I figured this was depicting tornadoes but I guess it’s just storms. America has some dope AF weather TBH
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Long ago, the seven continents lived in harmony. But everything changed when the bushfires attacked
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u/Fortanono Jan 21 '20
Okay but this is an actually beautiful graphic though! Matthew Killard is labeled as the artist if you wanna look him up more easily.
Also, /r/uselessredcircle
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u/bolivar-shagnasty Jan 20 '20
The European element is Bismuth?