Comment by svilen_dobrev
6 days ago
loong time ago ~2000~ i worked for company making geological software.. most customers were "digging" for oil but quite a few of the customers were digging for water..
and someone then said "future Wars will be fought for water"
Desalinization is expensive, but wars are many orders of magnitude more expensive. Going to war over water rather than just creating fresh water via desalinization is supremely irrational.
Of course, most wars are highly irrational...
Add "or food" and you'll have a 99% chance of being right. Probably in some future you'd need to explicitly add "or air" in there, depending on what comes next. Strikingly similar to a list of what humans absolutely need to survive.