If you have not heard about the subsidence issue in California this short video is a great overview. This is a perfect example of the fact that the climate crisis is not just something for our kids to worry about. Connecting the dots look like this:
- Burning fossil fuels causes global weirding (a.k.a. climate crisis) causes
- drought results in
- dry, hard, flood prone ground and devistation to farm lands which causes
- farmers to dril for water which causes
- subsidence (ground lowering...by 10 feet in some cases)
- results in infrastructure issues (cracked roads, supporting structures etc.)
- global weirding / el nino eventually cause massive rain storm which will result in
- massive flash floods, mudslides, destruction and devastation of now lower and flood vulnerable farm lands. This results in
- loss of life, livelyhoods, and huge $$ in cleanup, restoration expenses. (Upside...all costs go towards increasing gdp number)