"Once the easy-to-extract oil is consumed, then only costly-to-extract oil exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify."

"Once the easy-to-extract water is consumed, then only costly-to-extract water exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify."

It's the same problem.

Oil isn't self-renewing, water used to be, but with ClimatePunctuation, that's changing.

Humankind may have to abandon the praries, later this century, exactly as most of California, most of Texas, most of the Middle East, & most of India are going to be unusable.

Too-many over-40C days per year & NO water for us, both prevent a region from being inhabitable.

The 600+ mass-shootings in the US in 2023 are nothing, compared with the rampaging pogromming that's going to be going-on in the coming years, as The Great Filter continues unfolding..