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"During [the last] 30 years, #freshwater lakes collectively lost an average of 600 cubic kilometers of #water storage annually – 17 times the volume of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States.

The cause is a combination of human-caused #overuse and unprecedented shifts in the #climate, the researchers found. "

yaleclimateconnections.org/202

Yale Climate Connections · How cities run dryBy Tanya Petach

To all those using #electric #portable #fan, what about paper and bamboo folding fan ?
Sure, there is no RPM displayed on a shiny LED screen to ensure you're using the optimal air flow, and it takes the terrific effort of moving your hand.
However it costs 10 times less and weights many times less, doesn't run out of power, or participate to #plastic and #battery #pollution, #energy and #resources #overuse, or #cultural #diversity #loss.

Overusing groundwater ended North Africa's Garamantian civilization.

' "As you look at modern examples like the San Joaquin Valley, people are using the groundwater up [faster] than it's being replenished," says [study lead author Frank] Schwartz. "California had a great wet winter this year, but that followed 20 years of drought. [If drier years continue] California will ultimately run into the same problem as the Garamantians.... " '

#groundwater #overuse #Sahara

phys.org/news/2023-10-ancient-

Phys.org · How an ancient society in the Sahara Desert rose and fell with groundwaterBy Emily Zawacki

A report in Nature concluded that we have already exceeded seven of eight “#safe and #just #Earth #systemboundaries” that it studied—from #groundwater supplies and #fertilizer #overuse to #temperature
“We are moving in the wrong direction on basically all of these,” Johan Rockström, the paper’s lead author and the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told reporters.

newyorker.com/news/daily-comme

#KeepItInTheGround #KeelingCurve
#Sufficiency #Sharing #ParisAligned

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@getimiskon Aw just realized the tag didn't capture the -.

#I #didn't #overuse #the #hashtags #by #the #way #I #feel #like #I #did #a #healthy #amount, #especially #with #the #words #being #chosen #to #be #relevant #to #the #topic.

Also, I did read a single comment stating that cores can run multiple calculations at the same time if they are different calculations. Essentially, a core solves calculations at different parts of the core, such as addition being the top left, subtraction top right, etc.

Do you know if that's true? Or just someone spreading misinformation on the internet for a good kek and lol?