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The Great Lakes will be the new Ghawar (Saudi Arabia's oil field, an ocean of oil).
by pseingatl 6y ago
The Great Lakes will be the new Ghawar (Saudi Arabia's oil field, an ocean of oil).
- waterheater 6y agoIt won't. The Great Lakes Compact forbids, except under exceedingly rare circumstances, water diversion from the Great Lakes watershed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact
- blahedo 6y agoWhich is why Chicago, Toronto, and other Great Lakes cities will be the booming metropolises of the late 21st century.
- eru 6y agoDo you expect water to become globally scarce?
- kortilla 6y agoThat compact will be wiped out by the federal government the minute things become dire.
- eru 6y agoWould you be willing to entertain a bet on that?
- kortilla 6y agoIt’s stupid to think otherwise . If it came to a matter of national hunger due to crop water shortages or drinking water shortages the federal government would use the military to dig a fucking canal across the country if they needed to.
- eru 6y agoFor minor crop water shortages, probably not. And drinking water shortages can't really occur: you could airlift water from Fiji and still have enough for everyone to drink. (Or more realistically and less flippant: the volumes involved for drinking water are so minuscule, that you wouldn't dig canals across the country. Just use a bunch of trucks.) In any case, for a bet we'd need to operationalize exactly what we mean, and what conditions would count. I am fairly sure that will hold for the next, eg, 50 years. Ie I am fairly sure that there won't be any circumstances that will make the governments involved break the compact. Willing to bet on that?