• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The US massively overproduces food. We absolutely can afford to not water some of those crops.

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      The US massively overuses cars. You can absolutely afford to not wash your car.

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          You can just… not wash your car. It literally doesn’t matter. If water rationing is in effect, washing your car should be the least of your concerns.

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            I don’t care about washing my car. I care that they’re moderating our car washing while allowing foreign businessmen to use as much water as they want on hay that gets exported. And that could be fine if they were doing it in the Mid West. No, they’re doing it in Phoenix, Arizona. A region that knows it’s counting down to a zero day.

            So while I’m not washing my car, they shouldn’t be watering those crops.

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            Not washing cars results in long term damage to the car. If you have a 200k mile shitbox with peeling clear coat, sure, you don’t need to wash it because it probably won’t matter.

            If you have something nice with good paint, washing is an important maintenance item

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            If you don’t wash your car and you’ll get corrosion from the salt on the road. If you live where it snows of course.

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              This person is talking about being from the desert, so yeah, no sympathy here. The Fremen could figure out that water shouldn’t be wasted when it’s scarce.

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      lol fresh food is like all public health and wellbeing is non existent unless its been heavily industrialised to make as much money out of it as possible.

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        3 days ago

        Farmers’markets exist but in many cases they’re more expensive than buying at the grocery store. At any rate we already pay Ag corps to leave land fallow so the West and Mid West doesn’t get over farmed again. Telling them to water only 95 percent of their cash crops shouldn’t be a problem.