will golf courses be banned? no!
will lawns be banned? no!
will the meat industry be reduced? no!
will cash crops be deprioritized? no!
will international watershed coordination increase? no!
will anyone try to protect our existing freshwater resources from pollution better? fuck no!
at a certain point these grains are going to add up and the UN climate folks will become a heap of first reformers
We're gonna install cameras with facial ID at all recycling stations so we can fine those nasty wrong-doers throwing the wrong item in the wrong hole and destroying our planet!
Think of the dozens of jobs the mega server farm that processes the facial database will generate!
Sorry sweaty we need you to save the planets water by shutting your sink faucet off for the 5 seconds while you wash your hands.
No we won't handle data centers we need those for business, sorry you know how it is
Reminder that llm data centres waste dozens of gallons of potable water every minute of every day
But if we don't waste millions of gallons of drinking water every day... the Chinese might do it!!
Yeah but that’s alarmist propaganda. It’s actually the least of your concerns.
impossible to reverse
Under capitalism
Golf course sabotage futures are up
So. Are we all just gonna die? Like by the time there is finally some fucking left movement in the world - it's already too late? What a circus
No, not all of us. Even in the worst climate change scenarios probably not literally everyone will die. Life will get shittier and shittier, and billions of people will die.
something we got to remember is that even if climate change kills 99% of humanity, there's still gonna be about 8 million people fighting the class war and trying to scratch out a living on a dying world
Yeah, 99.9% even for 8 million.
shit you right, i did my math wrong
It won’t be the end of the world but it will feel like it.
It’ll be the end of billions of “worlds” contained in their human heads, that will for sure happen.
Poor countries first.
The global south will be the ones fully bearing the sins of the Imperial Core.
We’ll weather it better than the global north sissies who scream about masculinity while throwing fits when they don’t have the best facilities to maintain their excessive lifestyle.
Yeah we're all mortals. Death isn't the issue, it's that select few assholes decided to needlessly ruin, stifle and sabotage shit and prevent progress. The problem isn't just that they're ruining everything, they're forcing everyone else to dedicate time and effort into building bombs to survive, pour resources into producing tanks instead of revitalizing life.
Some of the most dedicated hard working people I've ever met all have fucking died due to social murder. People with top of the line scores in studies, died in their 20's and I can't do anything to stop that. The most infuriating part is people who rush to me with emotional support which I don't care about. I want solutions I don't need hope built on lies.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF WATER HAS NOT CHANGED THIS IS STRICTLY A MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM AHHHHHHH
A lot of aquifers have really long recharge times or are fossil aquifers, meaning that they no longer refill, so the total amount of available freshwater is probably declining.
i mean this is true but it's still a management question, farmers have known for decades they were draining aquifers from heaps to grains faster than they could refill but doing anything else would effect profits
For sure, but this has been exacerbated by policy choices like the water rights system and crop subsidies.
Im pretty sure the total available water actually increases since all the melting glaciers and icecaps are adding water back into the cycle, but I don't know how much of that translates into rain in areas where it can be used
So we can just melt these glaciers for free fresh water?
Most glaciers melt some during the warm months, then are recharged by snow when it gets cold again. Meltwater from glaciers is an important source for rivers and streams.
Global heating is causing many glaciers to melt faster than they recharge. This will lead to rivers shrinking or drying up.
The moment my tap goes dry Im bombing and murdering whoever needs to be bombed and murdered
Have we considered doing something about it before we run out of water?
i would but then i'd be bombed and murdered, i kinda need my back to the wall where i'm gonna be dead either way (more imminently than I am now)
many words to say i am coward
It’s never too late for revenge
Make sure you're prepared 😃👍
Blood is a liquid 
Mad Max time is upon us
Just don’t let water take ahold of you, for you will resent its absence.
we need Mad Marx time
“Fuck conservation! We will consoom, consoom CONSOOM!”
“Wait, what do you mean when I eat up all the resources they’re gone?”
Literal 8 year old mentality. “Neener neener, I can do what I want” and we all have to pay the price.
Literal Patrick Starr levels of critical thinking among the burgussy
Water? Like from the toilet?
i don't even care about drinking just give me some water so i can wash my ass 
Madani said the world’s “checking account” – surface water like rivers, lakes, and seasonal runoff – is basically being emptied.
He added that the “savings” humans inherited – groundwater, glaciers, and other long-term stores – are being drained.
The growing number of visible crises around the world, including mounting water shortages, he said, look like classic warning signs of bankruptcy.
Truly, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of...you know, the thing.
:spongebob-i-fucking-love: I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it.
We'll be moisture farming before the end of the century
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