Welcome to the future! I believe this is how the next world war starts?
Death in the Water/Climate wars is how I believe I will retire
Adam was dust until God injected him with life. And do you know what was in that injection? Water. Water is life. Water is power.
-- Kesslee, Tank Girl
That’ll happen if Trump wins in November and pulls support from Ukraine and NATO allies in the name of isolationism.
Water theft during drought is some dystopian post-apocalyptic shit.
The future? This is basically the plot to Chinatown lol, this shits been going on forever
Been thinking a lot lately about Ridley’s quote in Aliens: “You don’t see them fucking each over for a goddamn percentage.”
We’re so doomed as a species.
agreed.
The US has pipes to push oil from Canada to Texas, but has not invested in shipping water from sunken states to dryer states?
The Rockies stand in the way, and the energy cost of pushing water over them likely exceeds the going price of water. We do have lots of water pipes west of the Rockies, but no way to economically get water from the Mississippi.
Also, oil is worth a lot more per gallon than water, and used in smaller quantities, which is why oil pipes are economical.
I expect desalination to become mainstream before we push much water across the Rockies.
Mediocre.
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