After the water is gone, the soil is gone...

Started by CG6468, July 09, 2014, 06:10:48 AM

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QuoteAfter the water is gone, the soil is gone, the crops are gone and the superweeds take over, how exactly will Americans feed their families?

Tuesday, July 08, 2014
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

After the water is gone, the soil is gone, the crops are gone and the superweeds take over, how exactly will Americans feed their families?

The United States of America, like most modern nations, is a country accelerating towards agricultural collapse followed by mass starvation. At so many levels, its present-day patterns of consumption, resource extraction and environmental exploitation are physically unsustainable. But one area that merits special attention due to its imminent collapse is the subject of water security.

America has historically possessed plenty of water to grow enough crops to feed not only its own citizens but even export substantial quantities of grain to the rest of the world. But that's about to change. Cheap water is running out, and with it goes food production, food security and the ability for a nation to feed itself.

"The Ogallala Aquifer spreads across eight states, from Texas to South Dakota, covering 111.8 million acres and 175,000 square miles," reports NBC News. (1) "It's the fountain of life not only for much of the Texas Panhandle, but also for the entire American Breadbasket of the Great Plains, a highly-sophisticated, amazingly-productive agricultural region that literally helps feed the world."

Unfortunately, it's also running out of water. That same NBC News story goes on to report, "Billions could starve," echoing an article I wrote for Natural News three years ago in which I stated, "America's breadbasket is on a collision course with the inevitable."

Once again, the warnings many people first read on Natural News are now coming to pass. But it's already too late to stop the collapse. We are now staring down the gun barrel of the inevitable.

"The scope of this mounting crisis is difficult to overstate," reports NBC. "If groundwater production goes unabated, vast portions of several counties in the southern High Plains will soon have little water left in the aquifer to be of any practical value."

Using up water that's 10 million years old

Most Americans have no concept that water might run out. The very idea just doesn't compute; especially to many city-dwellers who give zero thought to where their own tap water comes from in the first place.

Water doesn't come out of the tap by magic, of course: it has to be transported from somewhere else. Similarly, the water used to irrigate farms across Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska doesn't fall out of the sky as you might think: it's pumped up from the ground, using up 10 million year-old water that can't be replenished from rainfall.

The Ogallala water aquifer, you see, isn't "recharged" by rainfall or surface water. It's a completely separate plumbing system that took millions of years to accumulate water. That water will be siphoned off by U.S. farmers in less than a century, it turns out, leaving the landscape all but useless for conventional agriculture, a destructive farming practice founded in extremely abusive and wasteful water exploitation.

Terms like "Dust Bowl" and "doomsday" are no longer considered fear mongering when it comes to the near future of this region, by the way. Once the water runs out, the real cost of decades of conventional agriculture kick in, causing widespread ecological collapse of the region into a near-desert-like conditions.

Modern farms, you see, are disastrous failures when it comes to water retention. Exposed, bare soils bleed water by the hour, and the loss of trees across the region -- which were clear-cut for farming and ranching -- multiplies the severity of the problem. Millions of acres that were once biodiverse, sustainable grasslands where drought-resistant plants retained soils and moisture have become barren agricultural wastelands on the verge of collapsing into runaway deserts.

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Translation of Marxist claims: America needs to become a third world nation!

This is nothing new, they've been making this claim for as long as they've claimed we're ruining the climate.
It's no different than their BS claim of "Peak Oil".
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Quote from: walkstall on July 09, 2014, 06:41:50 AM
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My connection is being choked and will be for sometime, so do me a favor and see if the OP is in violation of copyright, it looks like the entire story was posted.
And if so, just explain it to CG, he didn't know, I'm sure.
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Quote from: Solar on July 09, 2014, 06:59:28 AM
My connection is being choked and will be for sometime, so do me a favor and see if the OP is in violation of copyright, it looks like the entire story was posted.
And if so, just explain it to CG, he didn't know, I'm sure.
Thanks Walks.

The entire story was not posted, it is somewhat long. That was the first thing I check for.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

Solar

Quote from: walkstall on July 09, 2014, 07:25:52 AM
The entire story was not posted, it is somewhat long. That was the first thing I check for.
Thanks.
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