Life expectancy in pre-communist China and pre-communist USSR was less than 30 years of age, and a big factor of that was lack of access to clean drinking water. Soviets doubled life expectancy between 1929 and 1959 while surviving a Nazi invasion in the middle, China achieved similar results later.
This can absolutely be done, we just need to let countries industrialize instead of exploit them through neocolonialism.
And what does that have to do with our cities draining aquifers that take 1,000 years to refill? What does that have to do with huge chunks of our civilizations living in deserts?
Please go explain to the 15,000,000 people in Tehran, or the 25,000,000 dependent on the Red River, that socialism will, somehow, provide water.
By any metric, which “huge chunks” of civilizations live in deserts? Deserts are inhospitable and the vast majority of people don’t live in them. The major problem in access to clean, drinking water worldwide isn’t availability of water itself, but lack of development.
Tehran is a very special case because the city is 1200m above sea level, how many multi-million cities are located in arid plateaus?
We already have the means. Hell, we can even desalinate ocean water into potable drinking water if needed.
Capitalism just means we’ve decided societally that it’s too cost prohibitive so fuck those people, we’ve got artificial scarcity to maintain for profits.
Correction, Capitalism just means capital has decided that its effective to invest YOUR capital to wage war and impoverish entire nations so OUR use of capital can gain modest returns for the shareholders of the fewest percentage of capital holders.
There is enough fresh water for all those people, it just is not conveniently distributed around the globe. Thats said with that extra 70% left over, there are plenty of resources to build and power desalination plants where necessary.
We could also rethink the ways we use water like using grey water or rain water for things like toilet flushing etc.
Yeah, we’ll get right on that as soon as we figure out how to provide fucking water to that many people.
EDIT: Realizing I’m arguing with people who don’t understand the depth of the issue. I’m out.
Life expectancy in pre-communist China and pre-communist USSR was less than 30 years of age, and a big factor of that was lack of access to clean drinking water. Soviets doubled life expectancy between 1929 and 1959 while surviving a Nazi invasion in the middle, China achieved similar results later.
This can absolutely be done, we just need to let countries industrialize instead of exploit them through neocolonialism.
And what does that have to do with our cities draining aquifers that take 1,000 years to refill? What does that have to do with huge chunks of our civilizations living in deserts?
Please go explain to the 15,000,000 people in Tehran, or the 25,000,000 dependent on the Red River, that socialism will, somehow, provide water.
By any metric, which “huge chunks” of civilizations live in deserts? Deserts are inhospitable and the vast majority of people don’t live in them. The major problem in access to clean, drinking water worldwide isn’t availability of water itself, but lack of development.
Tehran is a very special case because the city is 1200m above sea level, how many multi-million cities are located in arid plateaus?
We already have the means. Hell, we can even desalinate ocean water into potable drinking water if needed.
Capitalism just means we’ve decided societally that it’s too cost prohibitive so fuck those people, we’ve got artificial scarcity to maintain for profits.
And how will you contain the mountains of salt?
Correction, Capitalism just means capital has decided that its effective to invest YOUR capital to wage war and impoverish entire nations so OUR use of capital can gain modest returns for the shareholders of the fewest percentage of capital holders.
There is enough fresh water for all those people, it just is not conveniently distributed around the globe. Thats said with that extra 70% left over, there are plenty of resources to build and power desalination plants where necessary.
We could also rethink the ways we use water like using grey water or rain water for things like toilet flushing etc.
Don’t you dare think of taking away the boomers recreational fishing cabins.
/s