“Once the easy-to-extract oil is consumed, then only costly-to-extract oil exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify.”
“Once the easy-to-extract water is consumed, then only costly-to-extract water exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify.”
It’s the same problem.
Oil isn’t self-renewing, water used to be, but with ClimatePunctuation, that’s changing.
Humankind may have to abandon the praries, later this century, exactly as most of California, most of Texas, most of the Middle East, & most of India are going to be unusable.
Too-many over-40C days per year & NO water for us, both prevent a region from being inhabitable.
The 600+ mass-shootings in the US in 2023 are nothing, compared with the rampaging pogromming that’s going to be going-on in the coming years, as The Great Filter continues unfolding…
There’s a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you’re right, on that point.
Pretending that such things won’t ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing
miscarriage
some brain-wirings/genders
violating christofascist supremacism
not being a Trump-cult member
as the next few years will demonstrate,
is naive/incompetent.
Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now “use”/abuse law.
That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.
Water is in short supply in southern Alberta. Is a massive expansion of irrigation possible? (www.cbc.ca)
At an annual general meeting in Lethbridge for the largest irrigation district in Canada, it’s standing room only....
Canada's long-awaited online harms bill is coming. Here's what we know (www.ctvnews.ca)
Years in the making, the federal government is poised to introduce a new piece of legislation on Monday aimed at addressing a series of online harms.