Not just water, but also resources: electricity, RAM and Flash memory, other things being over-consumed by the AI development explosion. This war doesn’t have geographic or national boundaries, its the (heavily funded) AI companies vs everyone else.

  • TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org
    45·
    12 days ago

    It’s about the cheaper method of cooling, there’s no need for them to have to waste water if they recycled it correctly. It’s really a war about the latest hot investment getting all the socialist policies from the government versus people being milked through do-or-die capitalism by a government that only does the bare minimum to fulfill their obligations to them.

  • dmir@gehirneimer.de
    13·
    12 days ago

    Can’t believe I’m about to find out what happened to the rest of the world outside Australia in the MAD MAX universe by living through it myself!

  • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    153·
    12 days ago

    i think maybe you should look into socio-economic class differences if you think this is new. i can give you links to some great literature on the subject?

        • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubEnglish
          4·
          12 days ago

          Nah, it’s way easier to just make up profound sounding pronouncements like “the water wars have already started” than to actually read something or challenge your misconceptions.

          You’re right of course. People have been fighting over access to water since forever.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itOPEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      Class differences, murder and mass killings without legal repercussions, flaunting of property and resource rights - confiscations without compensation, all of it are older than the human race and have always been continuously present somewhere on Earth - what makes it war is the open declaration and proud practice of it.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    8·
    12 days ago

    It’s between countries as well, let’s not forget that in the background of the current situation, Iran is also facing a major water crisis.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itOPEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      I’d call that more of an oil war, though they get their water through oil… everything is connected.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itOPEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      When those glaciers are gone there are going to be a lot of changes…

      While human efforts at reclamation of the Sahara have made some dents here and there, overall the desert has expanded 10% in the last 100 years. When there’s no more snow in the alps, it’s going to make the jump across the Mediterranean.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 days ago

    We need to weaponize beavers against deserts. It’s our only hope.

    Plus, they work for free, and don’t even require a planning commission. They just go right to work.

    🦫

  • Wolf314159@startrek.website
    3·
    12 days ago

    Paolo Bacigalupi is to the climate crisis what William Gibson is to cyberpunk. Stories like The Water Knife and The Tamarisk Hunter feeling a lot closer to reality everyday. But then again, fighting over access to water is a tale as old as time.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itOPEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      If you look around the globe, there are all kinds of wars about all kinds of things all the time - you really have to live in a very small bubble to experience “lasting peace” of any duration.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    2·
    11 days ago

    It’s a class war. Always has been. It takes different forms depending on the context of what’s being extracted from us and how intensely. It’s always happening whether we like it or not.