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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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1. It's very scary. We do not have a sane Government to deal with the...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Apr 9, 2026, 10:00 AM

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...impending crisis.

The day at which we can note longer depending on mining the fossil water in the Ogallala acquifer approaches faster and faster.

It is an ignored but exigent crisis. Famine is not out of the question.

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