• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    I used to work on a national, multi-year multidisciplinary study on, without doxxing myself, basically what he is talking about... but across the US. we looked at technologies, practices, and strategies for conserving, reusing, and waste / ecological impacts. millions and millions of federal dollars were and are spent on both research and infrastructure upgrades, demonstrations, education, etc.

    the brick wall some states have been racing, even accelerating towards has been visible from the cockpit for several years and usually decades, even by the politically cowardly and conservative federal agencies.

    the small farms are going to go first, if they haven't already. then the medium, then the politically connected and wealthiest farms... though they will probably receive buy outs. the what remains of agricultural communities will fold too and accelerate dislocation and economic migration into the larger cities.

    industry will greedily snap up whatever former agricultural water was around evaporating any surplus present after agriculture grinds to a halt.

    this future is locked in. it cannot be resisted, only fled.

    the fact that an elected official in Texas is using the press to convince the public that Texas needs more federal dollars with all its federal strings should tell you these are people want to be seen as crisis managers, but really looking to suck the last bit of the milkshake.