• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    Realistically the rubber will need to meet the road at some point, and the wasteful alfalfa and almond farmers need to be cut off straight up, because there’s no way a handful of wealthy farmers is going to be prioritized over a city of hundreds of thousands if that city is seriously considering trucking in water.

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      2 months ago

      It’s like the Irish potato famine - Ireland had the output to support themselves. You’d think capitalism would bow to survival - but it doesn’t

      Will we cut off exports to keep people alive? The people with money won’t.

      The rubber has met the road. Physics has caught up with creative accounting. If we don’t act now, will we act when people start dying?