The Greater Minnesota Khanate will sweep all before them.
You will be bombed for your water by us, the people who moved away from the Great Lakes
I'm probably too old, but give me a pack of cigarettes and put me on the front line
distill my blood into water when I die in the first battle
Cigs? Check
Eyepatch? Check
Scraggly facial hair? Check
It's water wars time, baby.
Nah, I'm gonna be one of those cool old rangers
I can grow a mustache and I know how to twirl a revolver
All I need is a cowboy hat
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I used to think that but now I imagine they'll forcibly Neurolink all us olds and wire all us up into a big computer so they can use us to help run the supply convoy algorithm or something
Those bitcoins, of course, are used to fund right-wing death squads in developing nations
I always knew @Dirt_Owl was going to be in charge of this planet one of these days
I'm just gonna sail around the great lakes with a modest sailboat that has a chain gun mounted to the deck. Not sure what I'll do in winter. Maybe cross country skiing with a crossbow.
That's a good point. I might never even need to get off that thing as long as we don't kill all the lake trout.
No can do buckaroo, I need a wisecracking, cantankerous, sage-like older gentlemen who sneaks sips of bourbon from a flask as a mechanic on my liberated tank
And you fit the bill, welcome aboard
It can’t be that hard to run a desalination plant… right? I’ll do it.
Get into public infrastructure (including utilities) while you can
all joking aside i've been screaming about desalination for like a decade now.
water shortage? LOL K IDK WHAT AN OCEAN IS EITHER.
california be whining about no water when its got 800 miles of coastline
ugh
it takes a lot of power yes. but there's no alternative. literally there's not alternative. even if we maximize rainfall it's not enough.
sorry if i'm being aggro and a dick . that's such a boomer thing to argue. get any map of the world and look at it. ocean = water
Desalination Plants have at least two major hurdles.
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Evaporating water to separate it is energy intensive, so you need lots of cheap energy in order to do the work.
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You're left with all this excess brine waste which is expensive to dispose of
Israel (3% of global capacity) and Saudi Arabia (fucking 50%) both have sizable desalination infrastructures per capita.
But the Saudis are absolutely wrecking their coastline with their excess brine (and burning a ton of fossil fuels to power the desalination process). As a consequence of the Saudi desalination efforts, sea water intakes in Saudi Arabia, Red Sea and Arabian Gulf, have the highest salinity in the world. The habitats in these regions have been ruined for generations.
The Israelis are, similarly but to a lesser degree, turning the east end of the Mediterranean into a wasteland.
It sucks that this might be one of the few ways a burning Earth could still keep everyone hydrated.
In America, at least, this is going to become one more profit center for the ultra wealthy. Which means it won't keep everyone hydrated. It'll just drive cost-of-living through the roof and cause people to abandon the region in droves.
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How much time do you think is left. I'm guessing 15 years before climate change gets real real and then another 10-20 of famine and extreme weather events, plagues other hellishness. I'm in the asteroids kill the planet every 20,000 years or so camp, but maybe a supervolcano will erupt or major fault line will go in our lifetimes.
Depends on where you live, and what precautions your regional govt takes.
In a class last year my professor brought someone in from UN-Water or some such relevant IGO to speak on water scarcity. I asked her what the outlook was for the near future, and she said "The water wars are coming." I'll never forget the certainty with which she said that.
According to her it will probably start in the middle east, which isn't exactly surprising. Consider, though, that Cape Town might have become the first major city to run out of water in 2017 had they not taken aggressive steps to curb water use. And with weather growing increasingly erratic, who knows?
I watched climate scientists at my school go through the stages of hedonism and despair.
It's going to depend on where you live. It's already real real in my country and there's not really water wars as much as there is a lot of rationing and the state cracking down out of desperation. Parts of the US like the Northeast will face the least issues and people living in certain areas of it can probably live through it all and not face any of the more series issues that other parts of the world will. Their biggest issues will be a dramatic increase in prices for everything, population booms from refugees domestically and internationally, as well as occasional flooding and squalls.
I'm too damn old to fight but ill be happy to trade some lovely crocheted goods for some water
Imma be honest. Most Americans posting here probably won't be experiencing any waters wars. You're more likely to see raids from bandits or whatever as the federal government fights them like they did the Indian Wars.
That and you probably couldn't convince an American to drink water even post apocalypse. The cola wars are very probable tho.
The rivers ran red, which was actually not that unusual for this mountain dew planned community.
I'll be to old to fight too. Maybe I can just grow some really dank weed and shrooms and trade them.
I may be too old to fight in the Water Wars, but I'll never be too old to die in them.
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