california anti-drought measures are always likeĀ ātake shorter showers! consider brushing your teeth with the sink turned offā and never mention the fact that nestle is bottling all of our fucking water and selling it to people who live in areas with plenty of water
Itās like the Irish potato āfamineā I stg
In California, residential use only accounts for 4% of total water use. Industrial use is 80%. Source:
http://www.alternet.org/environment/california-fast-running-out-water-blame-it-big-ag
This is true of any resource. Yes turning your lights off will save you a but of money. But industry wastes far more electricity than you. Yes recycling your garbage is good. But companies, like the retail chain i work at produce far more garbage than you ever could and do not recycle it at all.
Turning natural resource and environmental crises into individual responsibility is form of class warfare so fucking insidious
Honestly just burn every company to the ground or cut them off from electricity and water systems
Tax them heavily for their usage Make recycling mandatory or theyre fined Oh im sorry am i stepping all over your precious free market I hope to choke it out
āPart of the problem is that weāve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumptionāchanging light bulbs, inflating tires, driving half as muchāand had nothing to do with shifting power away from corporations, or stopping the growth economy that is destroying the planet?
Or letās talk water. We so often hear that the world is running out of water. People are dying from lack of water. Rivers are dewatered from lack of water. Because of this we need to take shorter showers. See the disconnect? Because I take showers, Iām responsible for drawing down aquifers? Well, no. More than 90 percent of the water used by humans is used by agriculture and industry. The remaining 10 percent is split between municipalities and actual living breathing individual humansā¦.People (both human people and fish people) arenāt dying because the world is running out of water. Theyāre dying because the water is being stolen.ā - Derrick JensenĀ (author & environmentalist)
