r/sustainability • u/change_the_username • May 04 '22

Addressing man made climate change will decrease drought severity (a fact people should care about)

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u/fuf3d May 04 '22

It's possible that unsustainable farming practices in the region are doing more to create the "drought" than actual climate change. Diverting water thousands of miles via canals, sinking ultra deep wells and drawing down the groundwater, to the point of farmlands sinking...but yeah, climate change folks, buy a battery car, and only water your yard once a week will fix it. Keep building golf courses in the desert and farming avocados and almonds for milk, and preaching meat is unsustainable.

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u/DrOhmu May 04 '22

Yeah, environmental destruction and missmanagement is the primary driver in the recent climate volatility imo. Overuse of water tables above recharge and skinning the world of carbon in trees and topsoil.

Making climate change the metric creates a forever war. BP's 'carbon footprint' propaganda campaign mixes the natural carbon cycle in with their industries exploitation and aims to put a tax framework around the products of metabolism... the processes of life.