Globale Austrocknung auf den Kontinenten

Oggi, circa quattro miliardi di persone – metà della popolazione mondiale – soffrono di scarsità d’acqua per almeno un mese all’anno. La metà di loro vive in Cina o in India. Almeno ventuno città indiane, tra cui Nuova Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai e Hyderabad, entro il 2025 esauriranno le falde sotterranee, con gravi conseguenze per circa cento milion

Each year, the global water cycle delivers 110,000 cubic kilometers of water over land in the form of rain, sleet, and snow. (These values are approximate; various models have produced different estimates.) About 64 percent of that precipitation returns to the atmosphere through evaporation or transpiration (the use of water by plants, crops, grass

Die Furcht vor dem Verlust der Welt im Sinne ihres Verstummens, ihres Grau- und FarblosWerdens, begleitet auf der kulturellen Ebene das Reichweitenvergrößerungsprogramm der Moderne von Anfang an; Weltverlust bezeichnet geradezu die elementare und konstitutive Grundangst der Moderne.

I kept coming across a similar pattern: events, well-documented in the historic record, that showed how rising and falling precipitation levels contributed to the increase, decrease, and sometimes the complete removal of populations — and ultimately species — from the planet. This was some of the earliest work of its kind.