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Steal it all back from the rich by force and pay zero.
Oh
Oh dear
We're fucked, aren't we?
pops a can of air
Yeah, probably.
Hopefully people remember and learn from the Australian government who allowed water to be traded like stocks. The idea was that farmers and companies that needed water most would pay for water rights from people who didn't need it.
In practice it lead to mega rich foreigners buying up all the water rights in Australia and preventing anyone from using them which created artificial scarcity and drove up prices. These mega rich foreigners then sold Australians their own water back to them at exorbitant prices.
I do not support it. However the thrust of the article was to invest in water treatment and water conservation tech companies essentially.
But yeah. Water, food housing and healthcare should all be free.
Also it leads to those with a lot of land to capture and store the rain, which means there's even less water in the river to go around.
In practice it lead to mega rich foreigners buying up all the water rights in Australia and preventing anyone from using them which created artificial scarcity and drove up prices. These mega rich foreigners then sold Australians their own water back to them at exorbitant prices.
Oh hey I've seen this movie
Yes, "people" will remember how easy it is to get filthy rich when all you have to do is cast your morals aside and exploit the basic needs of human beings. This will be a glowing example for generations of "entrepreneurs".
This has been a known outcome for at least 30 years.
Yes. We are. We have been for a long time.
It's just becoming more visible to the first world.
Yes. And in “The Big Short” Michael Burry went on to invest in CA water table futures. He’s already profited from that in CA.
They know very well what they're doing.
The water wars started years ago and if you're not Nestle you're already losing.
Nestle would poison every source of water in the world if it meant swelling a few more bottles of water.
Says the paper that denied genocide in the 1930s.
I'm fairly certain they're denying genocide in the 2020s
Crazy. We literally drown in rain the last 3 years. Maybe we could repurpose the pipelines in reverse direction and use them to transport water?
We’ll reorient the maps so that the north is west.
Huh?
MANIFEST DESTINY
eagle scream
"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence."
I actually hope the NYT gets dismantled in the press purges. They've been so evil that I personally hate them more than far right propaganda outlets.
this is already happening in places like Chili where big avocado farmers are hoarding water while locals suffer from water shortage and we eat our avocados....
Well you don't have to look that far if you're American, the reason California suffer drought and facing water crisis is entirely because farmer draining the water from river and underground for their crops
I knew that was Climate Town. Great stuff.
I think I could get used to the taste of human flesh. I hear the 1% are especially tender
there's a razor thin line between the top-hat old-school capitalist stereotype and anti-semitic imagery
Time to learn moisture farming
As we round the decade and head straight into the world of Tank Girl.