I think I’ve driven past that trailer before. It’s off the 5 freeway in California’s Central Valley. The guy who puts them up is not a climate activist. He’s just very Republican and blames Gavin Newsom and the Democrats for water being expensive in California.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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You're right! I've seen that too. It's near the billboards that say "pray for rain".
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The thumbnail on the preview card and the header image in the article is what I meant.
The trailer is in the thumbnail.
Lack of food and water will lead to war, and the war machine will pump even more carbon into our atmosphere, leading to more drought and less food and water. It's a self-sustaining cycle and I've no idea how we avoid it at this point.
Good water recycling systems (and desalination systems for those on the coast) combined with low cost and distributed synth bio based food production (i.e. precision fermentation, or biomass fermentation) could help relieve some of the strain on the food and water needs.
Don't worry, the nuclear winter will cancel it out.