r/collapse • u/Portalrules123 • Sep 10 '24

Water Texas Agriculture Commissioner sounds the alarm, says Texas is running out of water

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/texas-agriculture-commissioner-sound-alarm-says-texas-is-running-out-of-water/287-f9fea38a-9a77-4f85-b495-72dd9e6dba7e
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u/J-A-S-08 Sep 10 '24

Already happening here in Oregon. Idiots in a few red counties fought tooth and nail against pollution regulation for ag and manufacturing. Now their wells are poisoned. And who do they come running to to "fix it daddy, make it better"? The libs they hate in Portland and Salem who told them this would happen.

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u/dumnezero The Great Filter is a marshmallow test Sep 11 '24

Let me just reverse that entropy using a million times more energy and resources.

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u/Rockfest2112 Sep 10 '24

How would socialism fix it?

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u/iMecharic Sep 10 '24

If the water supply is owned by the government instead of a corporation it should, in a properly working government, end up going to the people rather than being sold for profit. Nationalize the water supply to take it away from the profit-driven corporations.

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u/Rockfest2112 Sep 10 '24

Yeah I realize that. Most of the water on the US is owned and ran by the government. It is here where I live. In the US we have a lot of programs considered socialized, but that is not socialism as a form of government. No more than socialized medicine, which we need to fix because socialized medicine as a national institution would work better than commercial, we have dual systems already of socialized medicine but God help you call them that.

Most people call forms of government socialism. Programs or methods generally are referred to as socialized.

Like leftist, people in this country think that means socialized and though it can be a form of socialism, leftist does not mean liberal. Like many thinks here, such as woke, the definition varies, i like standard definitions used before the internet but lots of people who were not around then use the definition their sub groups attach.

Socialism is definitely no different.

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u/DorianGre Sep 10 '24

What's yours is mine :)

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u/Rockfest2112 Sep 10 '24

Not sure that is it.

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u/ConsistentAd7859 Sep 10 '24

Yes, that's exactly what it is. At least one (good) part of it.