Yokels

The inherent unsustainability of capitalism (any idiot can tell you a system that is unsustainable is doomed. unsustainable meaning in this case a system based on infinite growth via finite resources) has been a sort of personal research project for years now. Not that only capitalist societies are wasteful and polluters, but capitalists just happen to be the largest offenders in these categories, save China. And the warning signs are everywhere: Oil prices jumping. Climate change. Resistance by foreign and less powerful countries to becoming mere markets whose benefits will never reach their part of the world. And now this. Nothing earthshattering, just not something I considered before now. We all know it's incredibly inefficient to extract the energy from a pound of beef or poultry compared to, say, grain. Now, vegatarians are extremists in my opinion, but that's not to say their beliefs don't have any merit. But no one ever made a water argument to me before. And since water is kinda important in the grand scheme of things, I'm taking notice.

The time for lipservice and reversed environmental policies is coming to an end. And hopefully it will end voluntarily, because... "

"I think the world's future water supply is a problem that's an entire order of magnitude greater than we've begun to realise."

....and us humans aren't too good at taking a hint until the hint gives us a good beat down.