Not a headline you’d ever have expected to read about the UK.
Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say
Submitted 11 hours ago by rah@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
rah@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Speak for yourself. The climate’s a bit fucked in case you hadn’t noticed. Each year now I wonder: is this the year we face the first famine? (Of the many to come, until most of us are dead?)
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
When I was young (a very long time ago), the UK was very much associated with rain. If you’d ask any non British person what they think about when they hear about the UK, the answer would have been tea, polite people and rain. I guess at least the first one still holds true.
stembolts@programming.dev 8 hours ago
They are speaking for themselves.
The UK is known for rain, so it’s unexpected to see the UK missing rain.
Like, you objected to… ^ that. Confusing.
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Off-topic starts here. There is no need to be hostile at a benign comment as there are plenty of dumb people who have earned that hostility.
How you reply to other comments will let me know which you are, given this comment it’s not looking great… but I have hope it’s a one-off ill moment.
eyes@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s been pretty dry in my area, we haven’t had a proper rain for few weeks. It does worry me.
drspod@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Good job we have free trade with our closest neighbours… oh.
rah@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
A free trade agreement wouldn’t make any difference, we’re all fucked either way.
console@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
All Jeremy Clarkson’s fault. if it weren’t for his show there wouldn’t be a draught!
tetris11@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Not sure what this comment’s about, but also, fuck Jeremy Clarkson.
Zip2@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
I’ve been following this guy for a while now, and this video sums it up well.
Nighed@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
That’s a cool photo, from 2022 apparently though, not this year.
Give it a couple of months and they can take photos for next year’s drought lead up…
matelt@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
There was a massive drought a couple of years ago and it took a long time to recover, I think we barely managed to get back to normal, so it’s very concerning it’s happening again.
Hopefully we learnt some lessons from the previous one about abstraction and emergency licencing. Time will tell.