Submitted by No-Drawing-6975 t3_11z0sm1 in worldnews
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blackkettle t1_jdbsz0o wrote
Or: they clearly know how to do wildlife population management but they can’t seem to appreciate the fact that they are themselves just another species of the wildlife. Too many people.
Old_timey_brain t1_jdcbz1i wrote
> Too many people.
The reality.
MarlDaeSu t1_jdcfc1x wrote
Realistically its because resources aren't used per need but for profit. We have excess food and water for everyone, but some people take 2 showers a day and some can't find clean drinking water.
SpaceTabs t1_jdbk9w7 wrote
A lot of humans have the same response. Water isn't disappearing
Senior-Government-87 t1_jdd3oqt wrote
Go drink salt water
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Sadmiral8 t1_jdbp4w2 wrote
Industry with the biggest water footprint? Animal agriculture.
Land use, water consumption, habitat loss, species extinction, ocean dead zones, CO2 and methane emissions...
Probably should AT LEAST start cutting down on those animal products if you care about the environment.
EnigoBongtoya t1_jdabghg wrote
Time to get rid of all sports, esp. Golf.
Total_Customer_6627 t1_jdabuys wrote
I’m not entirely sure that’s the solution.
EnigoBongtoya t1_jdadm57 wrote
It's a decent start. Golf consumes a lot of water for nothing. As does modern yards. We should move to more local wildflower like gardens.
One_Prior_9909 t1_jdb346z wrote
Golf courses tend to use water that's not suitable for human consumption. If you added up all of the water used for golf courses and landscaping, it would only be a small fraction of what agriculture uses. The real problem is farming in arid areas
kingofpotatopeople92 t1_jdbkgg0 wrote
Problem is both. I do have some doubt that wealthy people are walking around golf courses that are watered with 'not suitable for human consumption water.'
Widegina t1_jdedqmj wrote
And what they don't know doesn't hurt them. It's common practice to water with non-potable water.
CascadeJ1980 t1_jdbrh0k wrote
Exactly. So middle-aged upper middle-class white dudes can hit a ball.
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--atiqa-- t1_jdc2mlu wrote
Tired of people calling golf some rich person activity...
Maybe that is true for some countries like US, but it really annoys me when people say that, yet I'm here in Sweden paying less for golf than a gym membership. Also don't use a golf cart, and walking while playing golf is an activity that's good for you. That applies to most people who play golf here. (Also the climate can massively change how much additional water you need, if any at all)
But no, let's just shit on all the golfers.
I know this is about the water used, but lets be real, you brought it up just because you think it's only rich people doing it.
Golf courses use a small amount of water in the grand scheme of things, and it wouldn't change anything really.
Next we should cancel all other sports that use a lot of water for their grass? Like American football and football etc
hepakrese t1_jdc5ce7 wrote
It gets bright up because golf courses in the US are built in places otherwise unsuitable for grass. Like the desert.
--atiqa-- t1_jdc6ta9 wrote
Well yeah, and I agree with that, but that wasn't even brought up here. And since it's an international subreddit, you really have to specify that.
hepakrese t1_jdc8g98 wrote
🤷 It was brought up elsewhere in the comments and I was simply replying to your response about the US & golf anyway.
WorldlyNotice t1_jdbqy4u wrote
Meanwhile, Redditors remain thirsty.
Festortheinvestor t1_jddaec7 wrote
How about Coca Cola and all the other sugary drink companies stop making diabetes water? Yeah I thought not. Corporations raping the world of its resources for money. It’s pathetic
gotBanhammered t1_jdbzok0 wrote
Amazing how coordinated news has become. One week it's all earthquakes, next week it's all water. Preying on our stress by multiplicatively assaulting our senses. Next month they will all talk about the food shortage, they are just dying to find the next big terror now that Trump and Corona is over.
Old_timey_brain t1_jdcc2zl wrote
Michael Crichton really nailed it in the book, "The State of Fear".
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FistingLube t1_jdf3ma5 wrote
Too many people, Mother Nature keeps tying to kill a load of us off but pesky scientists keep stopping it. For now anyway, we won't keep dodging her plagues forever.
Oki-Doki-4 t1_jdfdtwd wrote
Oh no! Better put another tick on the Crisis Counter! (counter now reads "17")
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Ok now back to doing nothing.
Total_Customer_6627 t1_jdabt7p wrote
We won’t do anything to fix it.
2020willyb2020 t1_jdbqei0 wrote
Better and New technology breakthrough needs to be developed now for continued research and development in converting ocean water to drinking water . in 5 to 10 years we can accomplish Low energy/ cost and MASSIVE desalination plants - it’s the only way . We will solve it just like we did we fossil fuels and pollution. /s
TorteTastey t1_jddgl0l wrote
Fun fact, 75% of Israel's water is taken from the Mediterranean Sea and desalinated for drinking. Only issue is that the plants that do it run on natural gas and fossil fuel.
So the technology is there. It just needs to be improved upon by being given a different power source
2020willyb2020 t1_jddjbin wrote
Did not know that- great start for them to lead the transition (or at least we can learn from them)
MrJenzie t1_jddmjjw wrote
Well
Don't have too many humans or animals or plants then
DevoidHT t1_jddumz3 wrote
As someone that lives next to Lake Erie, don’t you fuckers think about it.
PencilPacket t1_jdnv2nb wrote
Nestle
flexwhine t1_jdb9pb2 wrote
Things seem really bad, so bad that I'm sure somebody is doing something about it. That's comforting.
coreywindom t1_jdb6rmr wrote
I bet aliens are watching Earth like.. “How the hell do these idiots have a water shortage on a planet with 70% of it surface covered in water.