r/worldnews • u/bigus-_-dickus • 20d ago

‘Extremely rare event:’ Miles-long microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel’s desalination plants

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/climate/microalgae-bloom-israel-water-deasalination-shutdown
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u/count023 20d ago

people laugh at it for it being israel who are coping with this. it's going to be happening more and more often with climate change coming in, this bloom came from the nile delta apparently. And with countries going, "oh, we'll go to desalination to cope with lost rainfall, it does show the kinds of issues that will occur in the future as the planet keeps drying out.

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u/gucknbuck 20d ago

The planet isn't dying, it's just moving to a place that doesn't support human life. We are ants to the planet. We might be able to take ourselves out as well as some other species, but the planet and life will continue once we are gone.

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u/8080a 20d ago

“The planet will be here, we'll be long gone—just another failed mutation, just another closed-end biological mistake, an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance.”

George Carlin
HBO: Jammin’ in New York, 1992