The bizarre link between rising sea levels and complications in pregnancy

https://www.vox.com/climate/351534/salt-water-pregnancy-rising-sea-levels

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JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Wow this is hella scary... Idk how to react, idk if there's anything I can do to fix it?

silence7@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Make sure that your community has access to municipal drinking water where the salt content is actively controlled, and doesn't depend on wells which are experiencing saltwater intrusion.

JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y

Ok that sounds like something I can do. Thank you

DarkGamer@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Interesting read.

Even without the saltwater problem, drinking from the end of the Ganges sounds pretty bad considering how polluted that river is.

I have a hard time understanding the mentality of people having kids while complaining, there's not enough fresh water.

I suppose it's good that most of the local water supply here in ca comes from mountain snowpack melts.

thefactthat@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

I have a hard time understanding the mentality of people having kids while complaining, there's not enough fresh water.

I mean for one, people don't always have a choice about having children if they can't access birth control.

And there are cultural pressures that mean that having children is less of a choice and more a pre-ordained stage of life.