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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple. - Bill Mollison
by meteyor 10mo ago
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
- Bill Mollison
- keiferski 10mo agoFor every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. - H. L. Mencken
- timcobb 10mo agoWhat simple solution are you referring to? Depopulating Tehran?
- abenga 10mo agoUse less water? Probably by recycling the water that is actually used. If las Vegas can survive in the desert, any city can. The problem is getting the money to apply the fixes required.
- orthoxerox 10mo agoLas Vegas was built in the oasis.
- abenga 10mo agoTrue, and they haven't dried it up. Given some starting amount of water, recirculating it through the system more efficiently will keep the "running out of water" problem at bay, right?
- 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 10mo agoIt appears the solution to most hard or intractable problems is to post pithy aphorisms on the internet.
- meteyor 10mo agoI like the idea of working with nature to solve problems. As a start, instead of, as you suggest, depopulating Tehran, they could populate it with trees. Chad is a perfect example of how to turn a deserted landscape into a "Great green wall of Africa" as they call it. And they did in only two years.
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- breppp 10mo agoAs far I remember a large reason for the water crisis is subsidizing water for agriculture which does not fit the local climate This is based on some ideological pillar of being autarkic, as the Islamic Republic was generally built upon the fear of outside influence sounds like if 90% of their water goes to agriculture, mostly export, and their country is cash strapped due to their habit of kidnappings, then maybe there's a simple solution here
- vintermann 10mo ago> This is based on some ideological pillar of being autarkic, as the Islamic Republic was generally built upon the fear of outside influence You say that if it was some cultural oddity, and not a completely understandable reaction and exactly the same any state with "western culture" would have done in the same situation.
- breppp 10mo agoI don't say it's a cultural oddity, western culture had its fair share of self-destructive regimes which ideological underpinnings created great disasters, especially in the 20th century
- stocksinsmocks 10mo agoI feel like I may be insulting your intelligence with how obvious this is, but the Israeli government has had turning Iran into a failed state as an open policy objective since the 1980s. Given that Israeli interests have achieved this end in basically every non-monarchy in the region, I think this is a credible threat. Israel has a highly aggressive and influential lobby in the United States, which has posed debilitating sanctions on Iran for many years now. I’m not saying the religious leadership in Iran are the good guys, but the siege mentality is hardly irrational.
- breppp 10mo agoI think that's an overly simplistic and false view of Israeli-Iranian relations since 1979. Israel had tried to help Islamist Iran negotiate with the US through the Contra debacle, shared intelligence with Iran against Iraq (failed reactor bombing) and outright sold weapons to Iran to support them against Iraq. There was a naive belief in Israel that the daily "Death to Israel" chants are just rhetoric like in the arab countries it used to deal with, and Iran can be a quiet ally like before 1979 At the same time Iran fought Israel through their mercenaries in Lebanon up to the point where all of Iran's resources were consumed by the failed attempt to encircle Israel, which has collapsed completely in the last two years
- LunaSea 10mo agoNot sure if a quote by a pseudo-scientist new-age gardener is really adapted.
- mythrwy 10mo agoWhat's the simple solution here? Starve the majority of humanity to death with permaculture nonsense?
- imtringued 10mo agoThis is a pretty weird take in a HN submission about modern agricultural practices causing drought in urban Iran. Like, the problem you're suggesting is already happening, right now, except it is water related not about food.