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   Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 18:04:47 JST Gerry McGovern

   "Utah has dozens of data centers, and at least one covers 1.5 million square feet. Data centers guzzle water to keep their computers cool—and yet data about their water consumption in Utah is not readily available."

   "The Lake has lost 60% of its surface area and 73% of its water. As its surface area shrinks, toxic dust is exposed, causing significant air pollution. As water flows into the Lake dwindle, salinity increases, harming brine fly and brine shrimp populations."
   https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/rights-of-nature

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     Grant (gsymon@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 16:54:50 JST Grant

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     @tinyrabbit @gerrymcgovern

     " Then I remembered that it's exactly like the rest of the world "

     Not all of the world. This comes into effect, this autumn in Paris (which already has climate aware policies) ...

     https://www.paris.fr/pages/paris-cree-une-zone-apaisee-dans-le-centre-de-la-capitale-20426

     #ClimateDiary #Climat #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #irreversibleClimateChange

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     Tinyrabbit ✅ (tinyrabbit@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 16:54:51 JST Tinyrabbit ✅

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     @gerrymcgovern it may be completely dry as soon as 2028, and completely dead even before that. A city of 200k people may become uninhabitable. And they don't even know! Or care!

     Then I remembered that it's exactly like the rest of the world.

     Glyn Moody repeated this.
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     Tinyrabbit ✅ (tinyrabbit@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 16:54:52 JST Tinyrabbit ✅

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     @gerrymcgovern I have friend in Salt Lake City and brought this up with them. And the response was completely baffling to me:
     "Yeah, everyone can see that the lake is dying. You can't go there because of the constant stench of rotting shellfish. But this is the first time I've heard that it might dry out and that it would be toxic if it did. Literally nobody here talks or worries about that."

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     Tinyrabbit ✅ (tinyrabbit@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 16:54:53 JST Tinyrabbit ✅

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     @gerrymcgovern am I a douche for being annoyed at "Annually, the Lake averages a deficit of 1.2 million acre-feet of water" because of course Americans would never use sensible units of measurement for *anything* but time.