![]() ![]() The problem is we are pumping fresh water from deep under the land and returning it to the salty ocean. ![]() The problem is not using the water, because H 2O molecules do not disappear or cease to exist when ingested or evaporated or frozen - they just transform. Rising oceans are also warming, which is an enabler of many of the worst of the worst effects of climate change such as stronger hurricanes. I've made mistakes, but nothing even close to being horrible enough to tilt the Earth.īut as the worldwide society drills deep for water – for drinking, bathing, lawn watering, agricultural use, and so on – humans have redistributed so much H 2O to the surface seas that we’ve tilted the Earth's poles to the east nearly three feet and are contributing in major ways to human-caused climate change.Īll that underground water is perhaps the second-largest contributor to sea-level rise after melting glaciers and mountain snowcaps. ![]()
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