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War over what resources? Oil usage is going down, desalinating water is a lot cheaper than war.

• tmtvl 2y ago
  I think parent meant food and living space. Though I would like to point out that water being cheaper than war seems more true on a societal level. For at individual not having water and not going to war isn't preferable to having water and going to war. If I don't have water, I will die, if I go to war, I may die (with a 99.999% chance, but it's still better than 100%).
  • candiodari 2y ago
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  • bryanlarsen 2y ago
    We're not short of food or living space, either. If we replaced all of our farmland with greenhouses, we'd produce ~1000X as much food. If we replaced all of our farmland with moderately dense city, we'd have enough space for ~100X as many people. Mix and match as needed. Of course we don't need to do either, since the world population has basically stopped growing. We just need to increase food production enough to offset losses of production due to global warming. We can do that by building greenhouses, but there are other, cheaper options, all of which are cheaper than a war.