The Growth Ponzi Scheme: Water Edition

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here's another look at why it's a bad idea to pipe water to places that don't have any.  It actually makes matters worse.

Comments

[heron61]

Yep, and more generally continuous growth is obviously impossible, since it eventually runs into hard limits, and in biology that sort of ceaseless growth is most characteristic of cancerous tumors.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have pointed this out many times. Infinite growth in a finite system is fatal.

[(Anonymous)]

Ask the purchasers to pay 100% of the costs (or possibly a bit extra, to cover unexpected mishaps) upfront.

Publicize how much this will cost each taxpayer (in the drought zone) individually ("Every person must pay an additional $5,000 in taxes...yes, even the kids.")

Simultaneously, calculate the value of all the water being outsourced (and include loss of habitats, etc) and publicize that in the 'donor's zone.

Sit back and watch the mayhem, possibly with popcorn.

[thnidu]

SHEEEESH! As if things weren't bad enough... My kids (now 45 and 40) are going to have a rough world to live in. I don't know what to hope for, for myself.

[(Anonymous)]

A good life, and at the end of it a good death? (Yes, I know that sounds horribly morbid by the standards of my culture - but isn't that what we're all ultimately hoping for?)

For concerns beyond the self, improving the world in some minute way can be taken as a victory.