Humans as a population react very quickly to changes in cost. To take your first problem, water shortages, one answer is to charge something closer what it's ac

Humans as a population react very quickly to changes in cost. To take your first problem, water shortages, one answer is to charge something closer what it's actually worth. That actually happened in the Pajaro River basin in California, which grows a lot of the berries for the US. [0] Taxing water faces political resistance and also has downsides like pushing out some crops. The rest of California is not desperate enough to do it yet, but I would guess they'll get there soon enough. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/29/climate/california-farmers-water-tax.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/29/climate/calif...