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Most water companies deal with this "problem" by drilling wells as a "solution". But all that does is drain the existing aquifer faster, much like we're doing with some of our oil fields.
Many people don't really know what to expect from climate change but decreasing fresh water availability, coupled with rising temperatures, makes me expect massive desertification. This is what I believe Lovelock sees too, hence his belief that homo sapiens will consist of a "few million breeding pairs" scrounging out a living near the arctic circle by 2100.
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. - Dr. Albert Bartlett
re: water shortage problem solved by well drilling solution, resulting in faster depletion.
In a nut shell, this encapsulates our entire insane 'mop and bucket' mindset toward all our problems!
Rather than making acknowledgment of the impending and collective cliff faces surrounding mankind a matter of supreme public policy reversal (i.e., give our complete and undivided attention to living on less while there is still time & energy), we instead scurry up more mops and buckets which only hasten us closer to the noose tightening cliff.
In all this mop and bucket insanity I am reminded of the natural history museum dioramas depicting pre-historic hunters driving buffalo herds toward and over a cliff. Despite our advanced technological prowess and veneer of sophisticated civilization, we still tend to operate with blunt tactical force toward the problems we confront.
Except now the diorama would depict all of mankind being herded forward closer and closer to the precipice and it is our present day civilization cart with all its insane mops and buckets that is behind this march of doom.
Indeed, what a march of folly we continue to trod.
"It was your skill and your science
That led you astray.
And you thought to yourself,
I am, and there is none but me."
Isaiah 47:10