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You can literally grow food in your backyard. It's a renewable resource. You can't `create water` in your backyard. Freshwater is effectively a non-renewable
by nickthemagicman 7y ago
You can literally grow food in your backyard. It's a renewable resource.
You can't `create water` in your backyard.
Freshwater is effectively a non-renewable resource.
So the supply is limited but the demand is infinite, which makes capitalistic rules not apply. So if you attempted to apply capitalism, you would get horrible exploitative results.
- jefftk 7y agoYou can definitely make fresh water: desalination. You can do it with just electricity or heat, though reverse osmosis is more efficient. It's not even that expensive: all the water you can drink, for pennies a day.
- nickthemagicman 7y agoInteresting that you think desalination is 'making' water. When I wash food I brought back from the grocery store did I just 'make' food?
- jefftk 7y agoIt makes "fresh water" out of undrinkable water. There are enormous amounts of the latter.
- nickthemagicman 7y agoEnormous amounts for people on the coasts. Should the people inland pay a premium on water just because they can't afford to live on the coast? I personally don't think so which is why a capitalism driven water supply is a terrible idea.