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We do in some places. But in other places like California NIMBYs and greens decided putting extra salty brine back into the ocean was worse than taking fresh wa

• Gibbon1 3y ago
  > Really mostly nimbys. Greens have relented. Head in the Sandies is probably even more encompassing. From people that tink the solution is drilling for oil in national parks to people thinking suing developers and separating their trash is all you need to do. They're stupid people. Neither should be influencing policy. Seems to me that the usual historical options aren't acceptable. Business as usual looks bad. The traditional solution, genocidal warfare seems like a really bad idea for someone living in an industrial civilization. We could degrowth. But the Khmer Rouge tried that in the 1970's and back to the rice fields didn't work very well for most people. So seems like technological mitigation is all we can hope for.
• kelnos 3y ago
  Greens have relented probably because there are safer ways to put the brine back into the ocean that don't disturb ecosystems all that much.
  • freitzkriesler2 3y ago
    From a cursory search, the greens have lost their bite simply because there isn't an alternative. Water supplies are drying up and the alternatives would end up being losing political power. The state approved 3 new plants this year alone and more are coming.