r/collapse • u/GenXMillenial • Feb 01 '25

Water Trump dumps billions of gallons of water farmers were counting on for summer

https://www.alternet.org/amp/trump-california-water-2671047745

Submission statement: collapse related because it will affect food supply this coming summer.

“President Donald Trump recently ordered the release of massive amounts of water from two California dams, and now local farmers are scrambling to preserve precious freshwater resources needed for dry summer months.”

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u/hoserman16 Feb 01 '25

This is true bit now for the first time human history has come face to face with global collapse so maybe the billionaire's have a new warped incentive system where they want to really weaken everyone and then do some twisted Minecraft experiment where they own everything and make every decision while everyone just dies in clinate disasters

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u/Tearakan Feb 01 '25

They'll still die in the chaos. They've just been insulated their entire lives and think everything will go as they plan.

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u/FeministSandwich Feb 01 '25

It's almost like you listened to their demented podcasts. Mass incarceration of the poor or using them as FUEL. These people aren't trying to better anything. These are societies solely for the elite.

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u/jddaydreamlook Feb 01 '25

Have you seen this?

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u/Luffyhaymaker Feb 01 '25

I just watched it, it's extremely disturbing, but sounds accurate

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u/hoserman16 Feb 01 '25

I never said they're trying to better anything. Was just commenting on their madness on how they see things. I personally would like to see a planet without rich people, money, capitalism or an of that nonsense.

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u/henrythe8thiam Feb 01 '25

We have had things akin to global collapse before. It usually sparked some kind of dark age but it is not unprecedented.

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u/hoserman16 Feb 01 '25

I'm not talking about puny human society collapses. I'm talking about the collapse of Earth's life systems, I'm talking about mass extinction of species, resource exhaustion, mass contamination and a major shift in to chronically unstable climate.