A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Western Civilization
A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Western Civilization
How extreme temperatures and dwindling water are pushing the Fertile Crescent toward the brink.
Long, informative, definitely worth a read - and depressing.
If natural climate fails to deliver water, and neigbours claw away what they can while it's upstream - this means either desalination, condensing water out of air (I would prefer if this technology was needed on Mars)... or just retreating from a place where nothing worthwhile can be done.
Those fields used to be known as Twitter.
If only it was as inconsequential as Twitter
Both desalination and condensation tend to be incredibly energy-intensive, which limits their use. It's going to take solar getting a bunch cheaper before we see them used at scale for irrigation