Showing posts with label desertification. Show all posts
Showing posts with label desertification. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

The turbulent future of the planet - Will humanity survive?

How Earthquakes and Volcanoes Reveal the Beating Heart Smithsonian Magazine

America is the most powerful country on the planet, but also the most dangerous in terms of geological risks.

The time when the great Californian earthquake could start is unknown and unpredictable, but it is expected that the state of California will be devastated by an earthquake caused by the San Andreas fault. Cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco could be buried or sunk.

Recent Earthquakes Map that uses Google Maps

Over the next 100 years, due to rising ocean levels caused by melting glaciers at the North Pole, the east coast of the United States could be flooded, including coastal cities such as New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Miami could be submerged. so building a dam around a city like New York would be as high a priority as the wall with Mexico. It is also expected that following climate change, tornadoes, and hurricanes will become more frequent, even constant, as whole regions. in America, including coastal areas, could become uninhabitable.

Protecting coastal cities from rising sea levels could cost the US Daily Mail 

The Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming could erupt in the next thousand years, with the last eruption taking place 630,000 years ago. The eruption of this supervolcano could be fatal to America because the eruption is the equivalent of thousands of nuclear bombs, so hundreds of thousands of Americans in the vicinity of the volcano could be killed instantly. Volcanic ash will cover 500 miles in the first phase, then spread around the globe, resulting in a volcanic winter that will last several years.

Experts Raised 'Increased Warning' Over Active Volcanos Amid "High Tech Time 

Tens of millions of Americans will die, plus tens of millions more people worldwide due to the collapse of the global economy and compromised crops. Recovery could take decades.

Desertification is another major threat that could affect Mexico and South American states like Texas, with the risk of a drinking water crisis, which will aggravate uncontrollable immigration, while Canada and North American states are increasingly threatened by winters. cold and snowy, covered by a small local ice age.

The Yellowstone supervolcano is a disaster waiting to happen Washington Post

Europe is not doing well either, given that the climate tends to become tropical, with summers becoming increasingly dry and hot, which would mean an increase in cases of malaria and other epidemics, as well as the disappearance of plant and animal species adapted to the temperate environment.


Rising ocean and sea levels could lead to the fragmentation of coastal states such as Italy, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, which could be completely covered by water.

List of largest volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

In Asian countries such as India and Iraq, but also in Africa, desertification will wreak havoc and the drinking water crisis, so uncontrollable mass immigration, escalating terrorism and local resource wars will become serious threats to the existence of the European Union that will not be able to cope.

In Italy, the imminent eruption of Vesuvius could lead to the destruction of the city of Naples, and half of Europe could be covered by a cloud of volcanic ash so that crops will be destroyed and the air transport system will be grounded. Indeed, Europe will be paralyzed for many years.



Saturday, May 9, 2020

Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Global Warming can start the process of desertification of the Planet Earth as Sahara was Jungle a millennium ago

Sahara Jungle 10 000 years ago

A recent study brings us extremely worrying news: in 50 years, rising temperatures will dramatically affect the lives of more than three billion people.

10,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert was one of the wettest areas on Earth

This situation is proving extremely unfortunate, especially if we take into account the problems related to food security for these people whose agricultural land will become useless, notes Futurism.

Desert Earth Planet by Fragile-stock on DeviantArt


Fortunately, if we can say so, this is one of the darkest scenarios, but it starts from the reality we live in: insufficient actions related to stopping global warming and the continuous increase of carbon dioxide emissions globally.

Desert Earth ~ 3D Model ~ Download
The study points out that on every inhabited continent there will be a series of regions whose conditions will be extremely harsh and will not allow human life, among these regions are: Brazil, North Africa or India. This increase in temperatures will lead to the expansion of the temperate climate to more northern regions: Canada or even the Arctic.

Earth's Deserts: Definition Study.com


The direct consequence of these changes in environmental conditions will be the increase in the number of climate refugees, who will have to move from regions close to the equator to the north and south of the planet in search of less affected regions.



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