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[...] according to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The study found that the US military itself might also collapse. This could all happen over the next two decades, the report notes.
[...] The report paints a frightening portrait of a country falling apart over the next 20 years due to the impacts of climate change on "natural systems such as oceans, lakes, rivers, ground water, reefs, and forests.
Current infrastructure in the US, the report says, is woefully underprepared: "Most of the critical infrastructures identified by the Department of Homeland Security are not built to withstand these altered conditions."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday October 28 2019, @11:08AM (5 children)
We checked that box off over the past forty years and we still have cheap fossil fuels. What's mysterious about attitudes like yours is why you ignore over a century of technology and infrastructure development? Solar, wind, and hydro development happened. The "now" of your above sentence happened. And our "energy-poor" future will involve harvesting the vast energy output of the Sun, which is pretty damn cheap on its own.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @12:37PM
> Solar, wind, and hydro development happened.
A good start is being made now (finally) on the electric production side, but energy storage is still lacking (except for hydro where a few good sites like Niagara Falls hydro include a storage lake that is filled and emptied daily).
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @04:18PM (3 children)
Oh fuck you Mr. Pipeline defender, champion of corporate greed. The hard won gains WE have made are IN SPITE OF people like you. So don't go trying to take advantage of a better reality now like you aren't one of the people that try hardest to block it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 29 2019, @02:21AM (2 children)
"Hard won gains" like shitty appliances, and expensive electricity and gas? I think you need to read the definition of "gain".
Sorry, I'm not an idiot. When you actually do come up with a better reality, even if by accident, I'll be all over it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 29 2019, @02:10PM (1 child)
You must've gotten cancer from the wind turbines.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday October 30 2019, @01:21AM
It couldn't be that you have nothing to say, right?