Water is southern Europe? Noice! Be grateful for the water.
Portugal has been devastated by floods this year…
Better than drought. You can build for floodproofing. You can’t build for drought.
The problem is always the unexpectedness of it no? You can build for drought too.
Reservoir lakes are building for drought. Food forests and regular forests are building for drought. Wells and aquifer taps are building for drought. Irrigation systems and drinking water distribution infrastructure are building for drought. Gardens and parks using arid climate plants is building for drought.
Floods can aggravate drought by destroying the above, including destroying natural plant life that is retaining water during droughts.
All good points. But food forests need water in the first place.
Food forests capture and retain water, and at scale affect the climate to increase humidity. They are actively being used to prevent the desertification of the Sahel region - see the Great Green Wall project.
They do need some water, but as an anti-drought measure they are indispensible.
Good point. But it’s tinkering at the margins and we don’t have long term data on viability and resiliency of any of it. Could revert to desert.
The people working to build the GGW are doing more than their fair share. Minimizing climate change is going to take everyone “tinkering at the margins” at the same time. As well as industrialized nations stopping shitting the bed.
Climate change could overpower the GGW if it gets bad enough, sure, but until then it’s food security, carbon capture/retention, biodiversity preservation, etc. It is worth the effort.