Comment by codyb
2 days ago
Lol... really? Are you as a poor Iraqi villager able to make use of this information when you need water? Or poor Indian person?
2 days ago
Lol... really? Are you as a poor Iraqi villager able to make use of this information when you need water? Or poor Indian person?
Call me crazy, but I'd make the case that humans should settle in places with nearby freshwater, rather than deserts, and should avoid widespread cultural acceptance of defecating and throwing trash into what would otherwise be freshwater rivers.
Ah yes, it's just dirty Indians polluting the Ganges. And dumb Iraqis settling in the desert.
Crazy's probably not the word I'd reserve for you.
For what it's worth, I also think it's ridiculous for the people who decided to set up shop in Las Vegas and Phoenix to whine about water. Nohody forced them to decide to live in a desert.
And regarding the Ganges, it's a property of culture and policy, not the people themselves. There were American rivers that were literally on fire from excess pollution not that long ago. Policy and culture changed and it greatly ameliorated river pollution problems.
You're the one who brought poor brown people into the discussion as a rhetorical shield from criticism. You can't whine about topical criticism against the shield you chose. If you wanted the criticism to be directed at wealthy westerners, you should've chosen wealthy westerners as your rhetorical human shield, I'm perfectly happy to critique their mistakes, too.
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That sounds more like isolated pockets of water bankruptcy than global water bankruptcy
Okay, so then you should read the article?
"Four billion people face severe water scarcity for at least one month each year, and almost 75 percent of the global population lives in water-insecure or critically water-insecure countries, according to the U.N. report."
But thanks for pointing out that what I provided was examples.