> Your comment lacks explanation. Well, I don’t entirely have an explanation, just an observation. Coming up with an explanation any deeper than “random chance

> Your comment lacks explanation. Well, I don’t entirely have an explanation, just an observation. Coming up with an explanation any deeper than “random chance arrangement of related issues” would require speculating about other people’s intent, something I consider to be a complete waste of time as intent is fundamentally unknowable. The outcome is what matters, not the intent, so I’m fine with not knowing. What I mean to say is that these types of discussions rarely achieve anything because we’re picking away at a single issue (in this case water shortage) which is conceptually interlocked with several other issues such that no progress can be made on any one component. It’s a pattern that repeats all over the place once you know to look for it, but let’s stick with the example from this sub-thread: there is a water shortage, in part because of inefficient land use for crops, because that land doesn’t have the transportation or other infrastructure to be economically viable as anything else, because building infrastructure is very expensive or even legislatively impossible, because Environment™, because there is a water shortage (among many other things). They’re interlocked such that none of them would be an issue if they weren’t all an issue. It’s a Hermetic Seal in the classical sense (not as in “air-tight”[0]). Does that make any sense? Not asking you to agree with me, just that you’re right that it is difficult to explain :) [0] https://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/hermetically_sealed.html https://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/hermetically_sealed.html