The whole Malthusian fallacy is alive and well; however, the enthusiastic supporters of that particular junk science are trying it again. This time, they're wailing that there won't be enough water to grow food for nine billion people--well, not unless we all go vegetarian, like, now.
Umm...I'm not buying what they're selling. I'd like to remind said individuals that the world is 75% water. Yes, all but one or two percent is salt water, but we have technology that can deal with that. And brains that can improve that technology. Or improve the crops to where they need less water.
So, yeah: false premise, false results. Garbage in, garbage out.
Then again, these are also the people that believe that all it will take for Marxism to work is to put them in charge.
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"Eat more vegetables (a crop that requires irrigation) to avoid a shortage of water."
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and yeah, water is what I do.
That was kind of my initial reaction.
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