As someone who conserves water usage whenever possible, and is a long ways off from success, that’s simply not true.
Very few societies actually use water responsibly by design. Agriculture and industry are water-subsidized, removing incentives. Daily practices are wasteful, appliances are wasteful, plumbing and infrastructure is wasteful, policies are wasteful, the culture is disrespectful.
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Which is still a result of capitalism and corporate greed.
www.commondreams.org/…/corporations-water-crisis
P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah in many cases, but that’s not the case for a lot of the world. The Middle East and North Africa especially, as well as remote mountainous areas like tibet that rely on glacier melt as their only sources.
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Climate change is listed as one of the main contributors to water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa. And as we know, capitalism is one of the main drivers of climate change. Water scarcity is a result of capitalism and corporate greed. Until AI companies are no longer able to move into towns and suck up their entire aquifer just to make AI slop, there is not as much of a water scarcity as there is a water hoarding and theft.
r3sustainability.com/corporate-water-usage-the-su…
unu.edu/…/how-bottled-water-industry-masking-glob…
www.worldwildlife.org/threats/water-scarcity
P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s no AI databases in tibet, Yemen, Sudan etc. climate change yeah, you could make an argument there but that’s a hard sell because these places were going to run out of water eventually anyways, and we didn’t really know of climate change till well into the industrial revolution, and didn’t fully understand the effects until recently. Hell, you could argue we still don’t, but the image is getting pretty clear.
Don’t get me wrong, fuck AI and everyone involved with it, but saying that it’s all AI and corporations buying water right is incredibly disingenuous, at best.