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This current crisis is 90% mismanagement and ineptitude, 10% climate change and that's probably being very generous.
by stefan_ 7y ago
This current crisis is 90% mismanagement and ineptitude, 10% climate change and that's probably being very generous.
- markstos 7y agoYou can't cite a source because this is opinion presented as statistics.
- hourislate 7y agoI can't find it but someone from one of the zones in India that is suffering from severe water shortages said just this (what you mentioned). They said everything from filling in lakes to leaking water pipes and a corrupt local government are more to blame than climate change. What's interesting is that even private enterprise can't fix this problem since there is probably a water cartel already in place to profit from the situation with the local government officials in on the take. Why hasn't the local population held their government responsible or is this not possible?
- radicaldreamer 7y agoIndia is a super corrupt place where faith in government services is low. There's also a kind of apathy involved where long term corruption has narrowed people's horizons about what government can achieve.
- munificent 7y agoRight, so the way to look at it is that humanity has always suffered from an epidemic of mismanagement and ineptitude, with no vaccine in sight (though democracy and education certainly help!). Now on top of that epidemic, we are faced with an additional disaster and we'll have to somehow survive both at the same time.