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Americans putting life on hold amid economic anxiety under Trump, poll shows
(www.theguardian.com)
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Americans have put their lives on hold like 30 times in the past 25 years
My boomer FIL explained to me "yeah it's going to suck for your generation, maybe the one after.. but it'll all be worth it after that. America will be the strongest ever - your grandkids will live large".
Ya so, to hell with my time on this earth I guess. Bunch of selfish pricks. They're not getting grandkids. Poor kids would show up just in time for the water wars.
Boomer telling younger generations they must suffer for the future while refusing to sacrifice anything at all themselves is a very Boomer take.
That’s the worst take ever.
“2 generations from now, it’s remotely possible that through reducing wokeness, kicking out brown people, shifting money from the poor and middle class up to the wealthy, and alienating all of our nation’s allies, that murica will be the best it’s ever been. Too bad all it costs us is literally our entire planet’s environment, basic human rights, and our very souls.”
Don’t think I’d be going out for a beer with your FIL
Uh, I'm pretty sure we are already seeing water wars. The India Pakistan conflict has a large amount due to India blocking the Indus river. China's south China seas claims is largely over control of bodies of water. The reason Turkey cares so much about Syria is because of the Eufrates basin. Hell, even Trump's wildly insane conflict over Greenland is over the artic water ways. And that's a short list. I'm pretty sure we are screwed...
Water wars is a reference to a SciFi theme about scarcity of fresh water causing conflict. Usually as a result of climate change.
Asimov and JG Ballard are two of the better known earlier ones.
Several of your examples are just territorial expansion/control which is standard human behaviour for many millenia.
So India/Pakistan yes, South China Sea no. Turkey/Syria yes. Greenland no (control of Arctic and access to minerals)
Fun fact back in the 1800s we had water wars here in California because farmers used up all the groundwater like assholes and started stealing water from other counties.
Greenland is similarly related to climate change, ice melting allows new arctic shipping lanes opening, and minerals emerging that were previously difficult to access. Seems perfectly inline with the general concept imo
Sure, climate change is the driver, but it's not a fight over fresh water.
The water wars was always a quite literal phrase
Fair point. I was thinking much more locally, like defending lake michigan from those damned floridian migrators trying to steal our fresh waters.
Oh it's totally going to get far fucking worse. I'm just pointing out the problems are already here. Fingers crossed we don't nuke ourselves to cavemen times. Or maybe we'll get to live the fall out games. Better than caveman times so we got that going for us.
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