[quote=barnaby33]Woe to him who treats water as a market commodity. He shall reap what he sows. It takes decades to build the kind of infra you’re talking about. It won’t solve the problem. Humans are maximizers. All you are doing by playing the lets-expand-supply-game is heightening the fall. Water is the most fundamental human need. It almost doesn’t exist in Southern California. Market forces will not in any real sense lead us to a better place, or even a place where our society can survive. Think tragedy of the commons.
We will drill, drill, drill until the water runs out; or is too expensive to extract. That will presage a collapse. One where food will get much more expensive and millions around the world will starve. Lets just stop growing almonds and other stupid for profit, for export shit we don’t need and save the water for things we do.
Getting used to doing with less is the only way forward till fusion becomes a reality. Then all bets are off.
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We’ll just have to agree to disagree. With global warming and sea level rise, we not only have virtually limitless supply of water, but it’s also growing. With the technology we have today, we could solve this problem if we want to. Not everyone wants to, which is fine. But to say we’ll run out of water while staring out into the ocean boggles my mind. This is not 1800s. We have all the technology and tools we need to solve this problem. Not to mention inflation and passage of time, why not borrow $ today with a bond to build these infrastructures. Since future generations will use these infrastructures too, they should pay for it too.
We don’t need to do w/ less, and I don’t want to do with less, especially when we/I don’t have to.
