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Mississippi river becoming another casualty of climate change

Drought is dwindling the Mississippi to historic lows, grounding barges and creating more problems for the supply chain.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-05/us-harvest-hits-snag-as-drought-grounds-mississippi-barges
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MasterLee · 56-60, M
It's called cycles. Next year it may flood.
Abstraction · 61-69, M
Was doing an assessment in the Amazon in August. Climate change is causing flooding in indigenous villages where they've been for donkeys years, forcing them to move - because the Andes glaciers are melting so fast.
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SW-User
Most of the states on its banks are red, incidentally

And unfortunately, much of US food agriculture will likely have to move to that part of the country in the near future, away from California as California gets less and less conducive to growing vegetables and such due to climate change and droughts ... I suppose at least a dried up river will mostly just impact food crop exports rather than domestic consumption though ... and if we have less land suitable for foot crops in the future, maybe we should be exporting less anyhow

 
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