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> An imagined scenario from 2041 Why is this an imagined scenario? It happened in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_heat_wave_in_India_and_Pakistan htt
by dheera 5y ago
> An imagined scenario from 2041
Why is this an imagined scenario? It happened in 2019:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_heat_wave_in_India_and_Pakistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_heat_wave_in_India_and_Pa...
One of the things the article horribly fails to even mention is that when resources are scarce, people don't just sit there patiently and go into a physiological breakdown. Not at all. People get up and fight. When the bottom layer of Maslow's hierarchy isn't met, all civility goes out the window and violence breaks out, as people fight for what resources are left.
From the Wikipedia article about what ACTUALLY happened in 2019:
"Conflicts over access to water have also occurred throughout India. On 7 June, six people were stabbed in Jharkhand during a fight near a water tanker, and one man was killed in a similar fight in Tamil Nadu. In Madhya Pradesh on 5 June, a fight over water led to two men being "seriously injured", while in a separate fight a day earlier, a water tanker driver was "beaten up"."
I'm sure there were numerous other instances not in the news.
- spywaregorilla 5y ago> One of the things the article horribly fails to even mention is that when resources are scarce, people don't just sit there patiently and go into a physiological breakdown. Not at all. People get up and fight. When the bottom layer of Maslow's hierarchy isn't met, all civility goes out the window and violence breaks out, as people fight for what resources are left. Sometimes. And sometimes they don't. Groups that don't are often far more successful. Fiction betrays us into thinking most humans are evil when facing adversity. It's not really true.