Oh hang on, that number might of been counting fish/sea animals too? Idk, I still can’t remember where I heard ‘trillion’ on this, but the infographic on Our World In Data could get that number up there with fish included as livestock.
Including fish as livestock is not particularly relevant for making a point on fresh water consumption though, so you were actually still right to call me out on this.
Thank you for this! Memory is a fickle thing and I really appreciate you coming in with sources like this.
‘Trillion’ was such a such a sure figure in my head for annual livestock slaughtered globally and you made me realise that I can’t actually remember where I got it from, which is kinda embarrassing.
There are over 8 billion people on earth. People drink, wash, and shit in multiple litres of water daily. Crops require water. Livestock requires water. We slaughter several edit:
Trillion (with a T) billion livestock globally each year, there is A LOT of livestock. Industry requires water. Industry is trusted not to hoard, pollute or waste water. Water processing and sewage reclamation requires well funded public infrastructure. The hotter our atmosphere is, the more water vapour it will hold.
Just some ideas to get you started.
I couldn’t sleep, so crossposted it. Apologies if you had it queued.
People like you are why we never stood a chance. Our species deserves this timeline.
By 2030 we are going to be 40% over capacity on fresh water resources globally.
This massive drought is likely to kill a few billion people around the world before the massive global famine will get the rest of us.
40% of arable land has already been depleted and 95% will be by 2050.
And this is just water and food.
Once arctic ice sheet coverage gets below 1,000,000 square kilometres, the planet will be absorbing more heat than it reflects. This is called a Blue Ocean Event and this will trigger the Clathrate Gun Hypothesis
2024 Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.28 million square kilometers.
Greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing and Fuelled by climate change, the world’s oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year.
So it’s basically a race between if the drought and famine will kill us all first, or the BOE setting off the Clathrate Gun will. Either way, it is unlikely the human race survives the century.
(Edited to trim that weird BOE link that didn’t format fully and to combine that dought/famine sentence so it parsed better.)
Define ‘not helping’?
Burying your head in the sand thinking this polycrisis is salvageable, is making things worse for everyone.
There is no future. Fantasies about having a bunch of grandkids in socialist enclaves of community gardens, or whatever, is hopium propaganda. Each new person created for this future you keep talking about, is adding a truly huge amount of carbon, heat and pollution to the planet.
Talking about how bad the polycrisis is, is hopefully getting through to enough people and making them less likely to procreate on a dying planet.
Less children born = less resources depleted and less carbon and heat speeding shit up = fewer dying children and more time to come up with physics defying magic to solve entropy and restore our planet.
(Or idk, god or aliens or something equally as unlikely saves us. Surviving this is not my fantasy and you should pick something that appeals to you.)
I get that you have hope, but magical thinking isn’t going to fix this unless you are literally capable of magic or you have a time machine powered by positive thoughts or something.
We are already globally over capacity on fresh water. Crops are already failing. The earth is already at heat storage capacity. Carbon emissions are still rising. Population numbers are still rising. Capitalist industry is still posting record profits.
Most people won’t even consider a vegan diet and campaigning for community gardens and bike lanes isn’t going to magically increase the heat storage capacity of the oceans.
So I am genuinely asking you, mitigation of resourse depletion, works how? Mitigation of thermodynamics works how?
What type of hard work do you think can fix this?
It’s only going to take a few more years as hot as the last two, for the ice mass at the poles to be depleted enough that the Earth will be absorbing more heat from the sun than it reflects.
This is called the Blue Ocean Event and it will set off the Clathrate Gun.
Once those happen (and they’re going to, soon) the planet is quite literally going to be cooked in it’s own atmosphere. Not much survives being cooked.
And while we’re on the topic of apocalyptic and yet fully foreseen disasters that most people are still somehow oblivious to:
Did you know that we’re going to be 40% over capacity on fresh water globally by 2030?
And that when this drought reduces humanity’s numbers by several billion (and if the BOE doesn’t happen first), the rest of us are still going to starve to death anyway, because 90% of top soil globally is at risk of depletion by 2050.
You might want to look all those things up, and maybe book a therapy appointment or something.
I’m game for an end of the world rager. One last dance (and mountain of party drugs) before the world ends, would be quite nice.
Some kind of ‘kool aid’ might be easier to get ahold of than access to nukes though, all things considered.
(I was going to make more jokes about Jim Jonesing this thing, but they’re going to be misinterpreted and I’m too fucking soul tired to want to deal with reactionary people anymore.)