Speaking of day zero, it’s interesting that this is the first day of black history month and TPM doesn’t seem to have any articles
Come on TPM even Ivanka cares about black history month!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-black-history-month-tweet_us_5a74151be4b06ee97af148f2
“Experts say causes of Cape Town’s water shortages include climate change and huge population growth.”
And failure to take into account these obvious long term trends and do something about it in a timely fashion.
Ultimately desalinization would be a good option, the cost for water-from-sea-water is quite reasonable for urban use (but not agriculture, which requires very cheap water).
This is kind of where we’re headed in California this year if we don’t get some rain soon. There’s not a lot of rainy season left.
Dune, without the spice. Who’s going to mine the diamonds, mine the gold.