{"id":59493,"date":"2021-09-25T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59493"},"modified":"2021-09-25T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T14:18:08","slug":"dying-crops-spiking-energy-bills-showers-once-a-week-in-south-america-the-climate-future-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59493","title":{"rendered":"Dying crops, spiking energy bills, showers once a week. In South America, the climate future has arrived."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dying crops, spiking energy bills, showers once a week. In South America, the climate future has arrived.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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An aerial view of the drying bed of the Paran\u00e1 River in August as the water reached a historic low near Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. (JUAN MABROMATA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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BUENOS AIRES \u2014 Sergio Koci\u2019s sunflower farm in the lowlands of northern Argentina has survived decades of political upheaval, runaway inflation and the coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0outbreak. But as a series of historic droughts deadens vast expanses of South America, he fears a worsening water crisis could do what other calamities couldn\u2019t: Bust his third-generation agribusiness.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen you have one bad year, you can face it,\u201d Koci said. Some of his 20,000 acres rest near the mighty Paran\u00e1 River, where water levels have reached lows not seen since 1944. On the back of two years of drought-related crop losses, he said, the continuing dryness is now set to reduce his sunflower yields this year by 65 percent.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen you have three bad years, you don\u2019t know if there will even be another year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

From the frigid peaks of Patagonia to the tropical wetlands of Brazil, worsening droughts this year are slamming farmers, shutting down\u00a0<\/b>ski slopes, upending transit and spiking prices for everything from coffee to electricity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

So low are levels of the Paran\u00e1 running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina that some ranchers are herding cattle across dried-up riverbeds typically lined with cargo-toting barges. Raging wildfires\u00a0<\/a>in Paraguay have brought acrid smoke to the limits of the capital. Earlier this year, the rushing cascades of Iguazu Falls on the Brazilian-Argentine frontier reduced to a relative drip.<\/div>\n
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Dying crops, spiking energy bills, showers once a week. In South America, the climate future has arrived. An aerial view of the drying bed of the Paran\u00e1 River in August as the water reached a historic low near Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. (JUAN MABROMATA\/AFP via Getty Images) BUENOS AIRES \u2014 Sergio Koci\u2019s sunflower farm in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31838,31837,141,31836,220,6401,7664,5228,866],"class_list":["post-59493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ana-vanessa-herrero","tag-anthony-failoa","tag-climate-change","tag-diego-laje","tag-drought","tag-precipitation","tag-south-america","tag-washington-post","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59494,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59493\/revisions\/59494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}