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Not serving water in restaurants fixed the water crisis and letting insects eat my roses will fix the bug crisis. As long as the farmers receiving billions of
by hermannj314 2y ago
Not serving water in restaurants fixed the water crisis and letting insects eat my roses will fix the bug crisis.
As long as the farmers receiving billions of dollars a year in holdover depression-era welfare programs don't have do anything to combat the problem, we should be fine.
- FartyMcFarter 2y agoI find this kind of comment neither particularly amusing nor informative. Can you elaborate on those kinds of programs and their problems instead?
- whythre 2y agoThe above post isn’t about specific details, it’s about the idea of individuals being scolded into trying useless ‘solutions’ to problems caused by the mismanagement of entire industries. Industrialized farming involves a lot of pesticides. Acting as if the problem will get better if people just let pests eat their small garden plots is dumb.
- Ma8ee 2y agoThe problem will get better, even if the direct effect of no pesticide home gardens of course is negligible. But it helps change the mindset of people. People who live in garden with a diversity of wildlife, who find joy in the butterflies (and their larvae), who are appalled by the thought of poison their own air, water and soil, soon start to buy organic food and vote for stricter environment protection laws. In addition, while it might not change the world, the amount of pesticides and herbicides used by all the homeowners in a city like LA isn’t insignificant, in particular not for the local wildlife.
- antisthenes 2y agoI find this tongue-in-cheek commentary very amusing, especially considering the article is a perfect example of describing feel-good bikeshedding, rather than addressing actual issues that were called out (e.g. large scale farming and loss of habitat due to human development) If you want to read more, you can start at a very high level by Googling habitat loss and industrial agriculture, I guess?
- nemo44x 2y agoInstead of “habitat loss” I prefer to call it “starvation prevention”.
- elmomle 2y agoI think "starvation deferment" is a more accurate phrase. To prevent starvation we need to address the tendency of humanity to reproduce, and to consume resources, past the limits of what we can safely and reliably sustain. Taking more and more land, and increasingly suppressing nature, to create more food on a finite Earth simply kicks the problem down the road.
- DontchaKnowit 2y agoeye roll when are we gonna get over this Malthusian doomsaying. Population is not the issue. Stewardship is the issue.
- nemo44x 2y agoThe fact we’ve basically eliminated fatality rates to kids under 5 is the the actual thing they’re trying to say. That kids survive at a rate in many places globally that is not sustainable to those places. Meanwhile we are told that we should limit how many kids, if any, we should have.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoThe good news is that childbirth rates are plummeting in the majority of the world, despite desperate efforts to encourage them upwards. It turns out that, given education, opportunity, and choice, women want an average of far under 2 children.
- DontchaKnowit 2y agoUhh no. Women are more likely having less children because economies are increasingly integrating them into the workforce and there isnt time or money for it.
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- para_parolu 2y agoNever heard about water crisis because of water in restaurants. Can you elaborate a bit? What place and time that happened?
- 2024throwaway 2y agoI believe you need to mentally append a /s to the GP's comment.
- kcplate 2y agoI still find it wild the number of folks on HN who seem blind to obvious sarcasm. Perhaps if english is a second language you get a pass, but if english is your first language…oof.
- MattGaiser 2y agoIt is hard to parse sarcasm in a world where opinions are much broader and varied than they used to be and signalling has become more pronounced and infused into life. You genuinely do get bloggers recommending ensuring you take a reusable bottle on a plane trip, that people take shorter showers, and don't leave the water running when brushing their teeth. It is reasonable to do all those things, but they are pretty small. Are these 3 sarcasm or real? - Wash your dishes in a bowl instead of a larger sink. - Fill your watering can waiting for the water to heat up - Put buckets in your shower. Answer. All real. One is a Google suggested tip for saving water. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+save+water+at+home&oq=how+to+save+water+at+h&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgAEAAYgAQyBwgAEAAYgAQyBggBEEUYOTIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABKgCALACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+save+water+at+home&oq...
- specialist 2y agoThose tips on their own are fine. It is absurd and counterproductive to then suggest those measures will meaningful impact a regional multi-year drought, while farmers continue to grow alfalfa and almonds.