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Water scarcity, on the other hand, occurs when people want more water than is available. This distinction matters: droughts often cause water scarcity, but the social and economic disruptions that follow from drought are a result of how water is managed, not because droughts can’t be anticipated.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Benjamin von Brackel • Globale Austrocknung auf den Kontinenten
When severe drought hit ancient Egypt or medieval India, it was not uncommon that 5 or 10 per cent of the population perished.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Taken as a whole, the evidence now points rather conclusively to a drought in the region that lasted at least 150 years and possibly 300 years, beginning about 1200 BC. It may be more accurate to call it a megadrought, which is defined as “a severe drought that occurs across a broad region for a long duration, typically multiple decades,” such as t
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without moisture, food production stops.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
minimum. Four degrees: Europe in permanent drought; vast areas of China, India and Bangladesh claimed by desert; Polynesia swallowed by the sea; the Colorado River