You’re entirely missing the context of what you call “alarmist talk”. The issue isn’t that the water will cease to exist, or that the planet will literally be

You’re entirely missing the context of what you call “alarmist talk”. The issue isn’t that the water will cease to exist, or that the planet will literally be destroyed. It is that our way of life is unsustainable and actively degrades the future quality of life for us in the future (and our children). You can compare our mindless pumping of water from the ground to the ignorant farming practices that lead to the dust bowl. If we don’t use our knowledge to take steps to avoid running out of usable water by using it less and more intelligently now, we will come to a hard point in the future. Which takes cooperation and empathy for everyone’s situations and the overall reality in front of us.