10/30/2015 / By twistednews
Panama has become the latest region, behind Brazil and California, to declare a state of emergency due to severe drought. Aside from prompting water restrictions and depleted reservoirs, the declaration has also directly affected shipping through the country’s bustling canal. The government is blaming the “El Nino” weather phenomenon and has set up a board tasked with delivering an expedient water security plan in under four months. The Panama Canal Authority has also declared that the maximum ship draft will be cut to 11.89 meters (39 feet), affecting 18.5% of vessels that normally transit the link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
As the anthropogenic climate change crowd begins to radicalize this narrative in hopes of utilizing it for a call for austerity, the real culprits — overcentralization of metropolises and the lack of preemptively built reserve aquifers — remain overlooked. Hopefully, local governments see through the propaganda being wafted here, and begin to take the necessary steps to preserve their access to drinking water; otherwise, it’s going to be a tough next couple of years!
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Tagged Under: Collapse, Drought, El Nino, State of Emergency
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