Comment by codyb
1 day ago
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.
1 day ago
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.
Lol. Yes, no one has ever been born in a water scarce location.
If you were born in a small rural town with no jobs, do you stay, or do you move to the big city where the jobs are? People are not robots programmed to never leave their birth location no matter how poor the conditions are.
Were you born in NYC or did you, like most residents, move there?
Water, jobs, food, safety, community - humans can, should, and do move to where the resources are. The world does not revolve around us. We have to exercise agency to get what we want.
Nobody is entitled to move to deep in Antarctica and rationally expect to have some kind of god-given right to water, food, shelter, high-speed internet, a job, and a car there without leaving. Everyone knows those resources aren't there, it's not a mystery.
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