one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

Due to unprecedented drought, the small town of Uribante in Colombia has emerged from the waters of the reservoir it was sunk into back in 1985.
The reports keep coming in on upcoming energy shortages and water scarcity but the world seems to happily truck on in complete denial.
Some experts are saying one third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100. And, of course, developing countries will be the most affected.

the great droughts which had devastated the Sahel region of Africa had been caused in part by sulphate pollution in Europe and North America.

Monbiot on the dangers of geoengineering