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I've seen this during the last few drought years in CA with a lot of my presumably educated, FAANG-employed friends scolding people over a glass of water at a r
by twelve40 6y ago
I've seen this during the last few drought years in CA with a lot of my presumably educated, FAANG-employed friends scolding people over a glass of water at a restaurant or skipping showers for days out the week. I've been stumped at how highly rational individuals could fall for this cult-like aberration - with 80% of water dumped into the farm fields, if all of the 40 million CA consumers were completely eliminated and replaced by robots, that still wouldn't move the drought needle very much. Yet, highly educated techies would throw nasty fits over a glass of tap water to "save the planet"...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/04/03/agriculture-is-80-percent-of-water-use-in-california-why-arent-farmers-being-forced-to-cut-back/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/04/03/a...
- iyrkki_odyss 6y agoWait, what’s the reasoning for scolding over a glass of water?
- twelve40 6y agoThis, mostly - and yes, friendship bonds would be broken if you actually asked for a glass of water in some people's presense: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/02/05/271997854/california-is-so-dry-some-diners-wont-get-water-unless-they-ask https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/02/05/271997854/ca... All the while: "even inside the restaurant, some 84 percent of the water use happens in the kitchen and the bathroom" It was like a cult. and this cult-like pattern gets applied to other things now, too.
- vimy 6y agoThe cult started with the Limits to Growth report (1972) which has been wrong on all counts yet it has been the basis for the ideology of all modern green parties.