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[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 7 points 8 hours ago

Steal it all back from the rich by force and pay zero.

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 3 points 7 hours ago

Crazy. We literally drown in rain the last 3 years. Maybe we could repurpose the pipelines in reverse direction and use them to transport water?

[-] herorobb@beehaw.org 3 points 8 hours ago

"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence."

[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 99 points 22 hours ago

Oh

Oh dear

We're fucked, aren't we?

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 75 points 21 hours ago

Hopefully people remember and learn from the Australian government who allowed water to be traded like stocks. The idea was that farmers and companies that needed water most would pay for water rights from people who didn't need it.

In practice it lead to mega rich foreigners buying up all the water rights in Australia and preventing anyone from using them which created artificial scarcity and drove up prices. These mega rich foreigners then sold Australians their own water back to them at exorbitant prices.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

In practice it lead to mega rich foreigners buying up all the water rights in Australia and preventing anyone from using them which created artificial scarcity and drove up prices. These mega rich foreigners then sold Australians their own water back to them at exorbitant prices.

Oh hey I've seen this movie

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

Yes, "people" will remember how easy it is to get filthy rich when all you have to do is cast your morals aside and exploit the basic needs of human beings. This will be a glowing example for generations of "entrepreneurs".

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 46 points 22 hours ago

This has been a known outcome for at least 30 years.

Yes. We are. We have been for a long time.

It's just becoming more visible to the first world.

[-] Ketchup@reddthat.com 2 points 15 hours ago

Yes. And in “The Big Short” Michael Burry went on to invest in CA water table futures. He’s already profited from that in CA.

[-] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 62 points 22 hours ago

They know very well what they're doing.

The water wars started years ago and if you're not Nestle you're already losing.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago

Nestle would poison every source of water in the world if it meant swelling a few more bottles of water.

[-] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Says the paper that denied genocide in the 1930s.

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 41 points 22 hours ago

I'm fairly certain they're denying genocide in the 2020s

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 23 points 22 hours ago
[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 20 hours ago

We’ll reorient the maps so that the north is west.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago
[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago

MANIFEST DESTINY

eagle scream

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago

I actually hope the NYT gets dismantled in the press purges. They've been so evil that I personally hate them more than far right propaganda outlets.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

this is already happening in places like Chili where big avocado farmers are hoarding water while locals suffer from water shortage and we eat our avocados....

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 9 points 20 hours ago

Well you don't have to look that far if you're American, the reason California suffer drought and facing water crisis is entirely because farmer draining the water from river and underground for their crops

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 19 hours ago

I knew that was Climate Town. Great stuff.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 7 points 20 hours ago

I think I could get used to the taste of human flesh. I hear the 1% are especially tender

[-] frankenswine@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

there's a razor thin line between the top-hat old-school capitalist stereotype and anti-semitic imagery

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Time to learn moisture farming

[-] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

As we round the decade and head straight into the world of Tank Girl.

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