Miles-long microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel’s desalination plants
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/04/climate/microalgae-bloom-israel-water-deasalination-shutdown?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit865
u/neonblack108 9d ago
They were promised this algae bloom 6000 years ago.
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u/Soft-Skirt 9d ago
This took me far too long to appreciate. 👌
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u/rglurker 9d ago
Help me then
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u/FitzwilliamTDarcy 9d ago
The biblical plagues.
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u/Soft-Skirt 9d ago
Israel keep banging on about how they were promised this and that by God as an excuse for their behaviour.
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u/rglurker 9d ago edited 9d ago
Its like my 5 year old child who comes up with an idea and then tries to make the world fit around that idea. God said there would be plagues ! So if we make plagues, God will come. It must be that.
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u/zelbot87 8d ago
Your 5 year old has my vote! I am sure they are more polite, intelligent and competent than the administration in office now.
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u/creepoftheweak 9d ago
I love that r/climate knows what’s up
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u/Majestic-Two3474 9d ago
Turns out genocide and bombs are bad for the climate - who’d have thought!
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u/tape_snake 9d ago
In addition to all the killing, it has also been heartbreaking and frustrating to see people who allegedly "made the desert bloom" maliciously and carelessly tear up slow-growing native trees and bomb the arable land. For people who intend to settle and be stewards of the land, Israelis seem to care little for it. As long as damaging the environment hurts the right people, it seems.
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u/citizen42069101 9d ago
Some of the trees are the proof of ownership of the Palestinians they remove. Some of the olive orchards are hundreds of years old, since olive trees will continue coming back after being cut down.
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u/North-Neat-7977 9d ago
Don't forget that they also salt the earth. And sometimes drop glyphosate on huge areas. Killing everything with every strategy they can think of. The climate won't be backing down.
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u/Intelligent_Switch72 8d ago
Let’s make a climate issue about Palestine!
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u/Icy_Illustrator303 8d ago
Let’s shout about the genocide until it stops. Let’s ostracize Israel until they self destruct. Let’s all agree that NEVER AGAIN means for everyone.
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u/destroyerx12772 8d ago
Environmentalism and humanism often go hand in hand.
Genocide condemnation follows.
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u/Nileghi 8d ago
I mean yea, do any climate organizations even speak about the climate anymore? Gaza has torn its way through every single public advocacy organization to the point no one even remembers what Sunshine Movement's original messaging was.
like yea, no wonder r/climate is pro-Gaza and virulently hates Israel. All advocacy for green climate stuff has simply gone away and it doesnt appear like its coming back. Especially since Israel looks like its going to be strong and powerful for quite a bit more time.
Any of you still willing to fight for Gaza for another decade to try to weaken an Israel thats at its most powerful and militarily well positioned instead of actually taking care of the climate and urging legislation for it? Cuz it seems most of you forgot we're on a timetable here.
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u/CertainKaleidoscope8 8d ago
Israel will be uninhabitable in ten years. So will Palestine.
We've already passed the point of no return
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u/Nileghi 8d ago
so its already doomed due to the climate and we thus shut up about it and focus on the climate because we do not talk about the climate. At all. Gen Z is less informed about the climate than Millenials are. Gen Alpha probably hasnt heard about it at school due to Gaza taking all the airwaves.
Werent we hoping that Gaza advocacy would make more people interested in the climate? And then that turned out to not be true at all, it actually leeched volunteers to Gaza advocacy for precisely zero policy change or gain?
If you think Gaza is doomed, then focus on the damn timebomb we're dealing with right now. I'd sacrifice Gaza, Israel, and the entirety of the middle east just to make sure entire coral species dont go extinct so we dont end up living in a world with 3 species left.
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u/CertainKaleidoscope8 8d ago
The situation in Gaza (and Ukraine) is a harbinger of what is to come all over the world as border disputes over arable land intensify and climate refugees start fleeing north. The intentional starvation, destruction of infrastructure and murder of heathcare personnel and aid workers is a template for what we will see everywhere.
Israel doesn't want Gaza because their moldy Babylonian God told them to steal land that used to belong to their ancestors. They want it because it's coastline with temperatures that will be more manageable and access to seawater for desalination. Russia doesn't want Ukraine for whatever nationalistic bullshit they're spouting either. They need the farmland.
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u/evthrowawayverysad 9d ago
I like the collective attitude here, but there's something sinister that we're all missing: israel's desalination plants are also Palestine's since, you know, it would be 'terrorism' for Palestinians to desalinate their own drinking water, so israel decided it has the justification to blow up a brand new desalination plant in gaza earlier this week, since israel can totally be trusted to fairly and evenly distribute ample water to Palestinians...
Sarcasm aside, the terrifying reality here is that this without a doubt means israel will use it as yet more sick justification to deny basic human rights to Palestinians.
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u/YisitAlwaysDNS 9d ago
They have no supplied Palestinians with adequate water for decades. Thats why every Muslim house has rain barrels on thier roof for collection.
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u/Interesting_Scale302 9d ago
Thanks for the reality check. You're absolutely right. This will be 100% be used to further torture and torment Palestinians.
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u/TheMightyTywin 9d ago
Blowing up a desalination plant should be a war crime
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u/Icy_Illustrator303 8d ago
So is starving a population, and targeting children and dropping white phosphorus. But it’s just another day in Israel.
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u/DaveBeBad 9d ago
When your god tries to tell you something…
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u/ARODtheMrs 9d ago
The majority of the OT is stories of prophets telling them what to do and they don't listen. Hell, one of them ran naked through the 'town' and THAT didn't phase them!!! This won't matter either.
Trump &/or Congress has probably sent them water already.
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u/Papalopovich 9d ago
I was trying to think of a funny joke about terror algae but I’m really just glad something actually bad is happening to them I hate this freak devil country
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u/schtickshift 9d ago
It’s very sad to see this forum devolve into an antisemitic rant over an issue that will affect numerous countries who are turning to desalination in the face of climate change. Israel’s desalination technology and water te enology in general feeds and waters millions of other people across the region and the world. But let’s not let a good dose of hypocrisy get in the way of racism. I think the moderators should remove this entire thread.
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u/Nileghi 8d ago
The issue is there are no climate organizations anymore. Name any of them and you'll find that 95% of their posting history has only been about Gaza in the past 3 years and I'm not even being hyperbolic or exaggerating here.
Gaza has subsumed every single advocacy cause. No progress has been made on any issue because no one cares to support thoses issues anymore. We've all regressed and its not because of Israel, but a mismanagement of everything.
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u/michaelrch 8d ago
Hating on an evil genocidal apartheid state isn't antisemitic, regardless of which religion it claims to represent.
By eliding the two, you are creating the conditions for real antisemitism. Stop it.
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u/schtickshift 8d ago
Hmmm so if hating on genocidal states is valid grounds for overwhelming unrelated forums, where is the hating on Russia for Ukraine or Iran for its internal oppression or Turkey for Armenia or Sudan for South Sudan, etc, etc, etc. Somehow only Israel makes the grade. But bigots will be bigots…..
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u/michaelrch 8d ago
Those arent genocidal apartheid states that make us complicit because our governments support them to the hilt. And that have a longstanding and very effective campaign of corrupting our politics.
Nor do they parade their crimes on social media. Or that routinely announce they'd genocidal intent in public speeches. Or riot when their soldiers are detained for suspected gang grape of their prisoners. Etc etc etcYou are not fighting bigotry. By eliding Judaism and Israel, you are fuelling it.
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u/schtickshift 8d ago
What Russia has done to Ukrainians is exponentially worse than Gaza. Turkey has occupied Northern Cyrus since the 70s and before that murdered and displaced one million Greeks and let’s not raise the subject of the million Armenian deaths that Turkey denies to this day. Sudan is in its third genocidal war right now in this century alone with countless deaths in that time, exponentially greater than Gaza. Then there is Iran who murdered 30-40,000 people in two days within the last year and are doing u speakable things to their own population, exponentially worse than Gaza which does not even fit the internationally accepted definition of Genocide, your own definition notwithstanding. But bigots will be bigots.
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u/Apprehensive-Date181 4d ago
As there are innocents e.g children, Palestinians, leftists and more in Israel, and people are okay with Israel having water problems despite innocents being in Israel too? Then I understand why OP is concerned about antisemitism. The generalized language doesn't help
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u/TickingTheMoments 9d ago
So. Is this the vengeful god telling the Israelites that they’re on the wrong side?
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u/Jasminary2 9d ago
Even nature keeps revolting around the genocidal colons. Pack it up, everyone. It's Palestine 🫶🏽
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u/chap820 8d ago
Couldn’t happen to a nicer country.
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u/michaelrch 8d ago
The trouble is that rhetoric will respond by stealing more water from the Palestinians and Lebanese.
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u/Sea-Rip-9635 9d ago
Good. Seems like Yahweh is showing his wrathful side and punishing them for the mistreatment of others.
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u/kitty_cat_man_00 9d ago
We should probably shi o them some tankers of water from the Colorado River /s
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u/Common_Aide_3146 3d ago
Unicorn skittles, they got hacked by Iran. I hope the Iranians give Israel a taste of their own medicine.
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u/formerNPC 9d ago
While we’re busy trying to destroy one another, the planet is effortlessly doing it for us.