Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Southern Drought

 Most of the southern United States is in some level of drought again.  Yeesh.  This does bad things to farming in those areas, along with hindering people's efforts to grow their own food in gardens.  No rain and broiling temperatures just kill the plants.
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msstacy13

msstacy13

June 16 2011, 18:03:06 UTC 10 years ago

We're doing everything we can to send water downstream,
but I guess that won't be a lot of help...
ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

June 16 2011, 18:08:31 UTC 10 years ago

It may help a little. But really, we've damaged the hydrological cycle so badly that it's failing out in a lot of places, regularly. Drought was the first form of habitat foreclosure, and humans are not exempt from that effect.

What we really need to do is fix some of the large-scale changes we made: replant forests, reactivate marshes, etc.