What James Howard Kunstler calls the “Long Emergency” is just starting

Steven Welzer
Jul 11, 2021

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/update-interstate-water-rights-supreme-court-mississippi-v-tennessee

Mississippi is suing Tennessee over water rights. The aquifer beneath Mississippi is shrinking. Wells have to be drilled deeper . . . at great expense.

The aridity of California is now an annual issue.

It’s in our time that the ecological stresses and exhaustions and depletions are just starting to become immediately problematic. Just a little. Just a tiny percentage of the populace is directly affected in a significantly impactful way.

The impacts will accelerate over time. Over generations.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83633.The_Long_Emergency

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Steven Welzer

The editor of Green Horizon Magazine, Steve has been a movement activist for many years (he was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review”).