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Detroit will make a come back! The city has plenty of water. Salt Lake City is finished and the Mormons can keep the soon to be dry dump.
And so the water wars have begun.
Mass migration, armies at the border, and superpowers killing whether they can't profit from.
It's farming that's causing the demand, not municipal water supplies.
It's kind of a funny thing to say, because as the tagline itself mentions demand isn't (totally) fixed. It also doesn't give the source of that exact statement, annoyingly.
What's actually going to happen is that people some places are going to have scarcity and have to cut back or import more at a cost. Either gradually, the way it seems to be shaping up where I live, or suddenly, like whenever California's aquifers finally bite it.
Yeah I mean I wonder how much water would be saved in water scarce places if people just stop having lawns for no reason.
People can put actual effort into their homes exterior and invest in native grasses and plants that way. Save a lot of water and end our troubles with toxic runoff
Or we can grow water intensive plants in states that have water instead of making almonds in California.
I don't use almond milk mostly for that reason. (Oat is also just better)
But I need it to cool my AI powered rule 34 service.
Good thing we'll only ramp that up in the name of capitalism
I guess, "do not become addicted to water"
I'm so glad I have a deep well in a place that will never run dry.
40% huh? Where have I heard that percentage before...
Capital will literally destroy this planet in order to "profit" from cars and carnism.
Well, yes, but many regions that are going to have water supply issues aren't near the animal ag farms. Closing a dairy farm in New Hampshire isn't going to help things in central Africa. The bigger culprit is Climate Change bringing dry air flows to areas that previously had more humidity and precipitation.
Closing a dairy farm does actually help. It means less CO2 in the air, less climate change, and thus less dry air in central Africa.
For the water itself you are correct, but animal farms are very much a reason of climate change.
Well, and people will keep buying said things. Billionaires shouldn't exist, and they're easy to blame, but there's not that many of them. They definitely aren't personally eating that much meat, at least.