[MCN] We can say our goodbyes to an abundance we have taken for granted : State of the evident 2006 to 2025

[Lance Olsen]

" … the proportion of the land surface in extreme drought is predicted to increase from 1% for the present day to 30% by the end of the twenty-first century." 

ELEANOR J. BURKE, et al.  "Modeling the Recent Evolution of Global Drought and Projections for the Twenty-First Century with the Hadley Centre Climate Model."
JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY OCTOBER 2006
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/hydr/7/5/jhm544_1.xml

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Warming Climate May Spread Drying to a Third of Earth, Says Study.
Heat, Not Just Rainfall, Plays into New Projections
2014-03-31
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/3164

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The May 3 2019 issue of Newsweek could quote climate sleuth Kate Marvel saying we have to wait and see what actually turns out, "But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon, in a lot of places<<https://www.newsweek.com/manmade-climate-change-linked-droughts-early-1900-scientists-discover-1411239>>.”

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Three-Quarters of the World's Land Is Drying Out, “Redefining  <https://eos.org/articles/three-quarters-of-the-worlds-land-is-drying-out-redefining-life-on-earth>Life on Earth.”
eos.org <https://eos.org/articles/three-quarters-of-the-worlds-land-is-drying-out-redefining-life-on-earth>
Jan 13, 2025 — New research has found global warming has made 77 percent of the Earth's land drier over the past three decades while rapidly increasing the ..

.Read more <https://eos.org/articles/three-quarters-of-the-worlds-land-is-drying-out-redefining-life-on-earth#:~:text=New%20research%20has%20found%20global,proportion%20of%20excessively%20salty%20soils.>


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"In a corrupt environment, resources will be directed toward  … social control and repression as the elites move to protect themselves, their positions and their material wealth.”

" …   resources otherwise available for socio-economic development will be diverted into security expenditure."

John McFarlane. Transnational Crime, Corruption and Crony Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century. Transnational Organized Crime. Vol. 4 No. 2, Summer 1998

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