• TheCaconym [any]
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    4 years ago

    it’ll start out somewhere

    My money is on the India/Pakistan border, as climate change depletes the water of the Indus river deeply (this has already begun). 85% of food produced in Pakistan comes from that water. And almost all the tributaries of the river go through India before they reach Pakistan. India is already in deep shit water-wise. So eventually they'll shit on the Indus Waters Treaty to avoid the death of large swathes of their population, and Pakistan will have to react to avoid the same on their side.

    • piss [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, I agree. Excellent point about the water & treaty. I read this terrifying research article modeling a nuclear exchange between them and the aftermath in 2025 a month ago but it didn't have water issues as a precipitating cause

    • read_freire [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      was this your go-to resource wars/extinction impact in your debate rounds?

      • TheCaconym [any]
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        4 years ago

        Schools in my country don't have the weird ass debate clubs you guys seem to have. Also, it's simply the most probable for me.

        • read_freire [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          lol fair enough

          it was my first introduction to marxist lit, so they aren't all bad

          the libs were obsessed with extinction scenarios though, and your comment read like you had gone a little too far down that rabbit hole

          • TheCaconym [any]
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            4 years ago

            When it comes to extinction scenarios the rabbit hole isn't very deep these days - reading publications on climate change is all it takes.