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>We've been post-scarcity for oxygen since before we evolved Have we? Our supply has been getting tainted with worrying levels of trace contaminants. If we had
by thfuran 3y ago
>We've been post-scarcity for oxygen since before we evolved
Have we? Our supply has been getting tainted with worrying levels of trace contaminants. If we had 100x as much atmosphere, maybe that wouldn't be an issue yet.
>post-scarcity for water in most of the settled world
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/imminent-risk-global-water-crisis-warns-un-world-water-development-report-2023 https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/imminent-risk-global-wate...
- ben_w 3y ago> Have we? Yes. > Our supply has been getting tainted with worrying levels of trace contaminants. Note that I wrote "oxygen" not "clean air". You're not literally asphyxiating, you're not even close. > https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/imminent-risk-global-water-crisis-warns-un-world-water-development-report-2023 https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/imminent-risk-global-wate... """Globally, 2 billion people (26% of the population) do not have safe drinking water and 3.6 billion (46%) lack access to safely managed sanitation,""" As you quoted me, most of the settled world. Most. As in, more than 50%.