The cynic in me thinks this is what our future generations are doomed to - reading articles of what the world was like before massive global climate change and thinking, "wow, I wonder what that world was like, I can't imagine it," and simultaneously, "what were those people thinking, how could they care so little for the environment?"
> This photo shows the approximate location of maximum subsidence in the United States, identified by research efforts of Dr. Joseph F. Poland (pictured). The site is in the San Joaquin Valley southwest of Mendota, California. Signs on pole show approximate altitude of land surface in 1925, 1955, and 1977. The land surface subsided about 9 meters from 1925 to 1977 due to aquifer-system compaction.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190715022121/https://geocurren...
One personal frustration that I have is the inevitable knee-jerk "cite needed" skeptical response whenever someone casually mentions one of these impactful historical facts. Ya, I get that we're all ignorant of our history. But ffs it's exhausting to always be challenged. Whereas actual disinformation is greedily consumed.
Increasingly, per Bartolini's Law, IRL I just keep my observations to myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
Thanks for the link. Sorry for the whining.
