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It’s a sort of luxury disease. It used to be that life entailed so much material suffering that people needed to rationalize that they were suffering for someth
by philwelch 2y ago
It’s a sort of luxury disease. It used to be that life entailed so much material suffering that people needed to rationalize that they were suffering for something, and so human beings got incredibly good at that coping mechanism. So good that now that we live in a world where we have material abundance, we cannot believe it, and then we go out of our way to impoverish ourselves just so we can feel good that at least we’re suffering for something.
All of us can have high flow showers and toilets like we used to. The world isn’t going to end if we do. Even regions that have water shortages can solve them with technology that’s existed for the better part of a century by now. But if we do that, we will end up standing in our hot, high-flow showers thinking to ourselves—this is wrong, we don’t deserve this, this is too good to be true.
- mpalmer 2y agoTell that to California
- philwelch 2y agoI think if we banned almond milk, California would have no water problems at all. Almond cultivation uses much more water than residential water in CA, so you’d think the first thing they’d stop doing is putting all of that water into almonds just to turn around and process the almonds into ersatz milk. But no, you gotta wear the hairshirt instead. If building things was an option in California, they could just use nuclear power to desalinate water from the Pacific, but let’s be realistic.