Steven Emmott thinks we are all doomed and tries to confuse others with weird metrics that are not in context.
Steve talks about water usage.
He does not talk about getting twice as efficient with water to get all of the agriculture and industrial and home uses we need.
He talks about killing or restricting the population in half.
Doomers do not go to water saving solutions they go to killing people.
Like the Far Side book of horse medicine where the answer is always shoot the horse. For doomers the answer is always to kill people
Yet even shooting people would not work. There is the examples of world war one and world war two where tens of millions were shot and killed and yet world population still went up.
Doomers talk about millions starving in Africa and yet Africa's populations goes up.
The doomer preferred solution of getting rid of people does not work for the purpose that they want. Even their doomsday fantasy of struggling humans killing each other and keeping population low does not work.
Hidden Water
It takes around 3,000 liters of water to produce a burger. In 2012 around five billion burgers were consumed in the UK alone. That's 15 trillion liters of water – on burgers. Just in the UK. Something like 14 billion burgers were consumed in the United States in 2012. That's around 42 trillion liters of water.
So that seems like a lot. How much water do we have ? The US Geological survey explains
1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3). Each cubic kilometer is a trillion liters of water.
The Earth's liquid fresh water in groundwater, swamp water, rivers, and lakes. The volume is 10,633,450 km3.
68% of that water is ice.
How is the water used ?
The world uses freshwater:
• about 70 percent for irrigation
• about 20 percent for industry
• about 10 percent for domestic use
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Steve talks about water usage.
He does not talk about getting twice as efficient with water to get all of the agriculture and industrial and home uses we need.
He talks about killing or restricting the population in half.
Doomers do not go to water saving solutions they go to killing people.
Yet even shooting people would not work. There is the examples of world war one and world war two where tens of millions were shot and killed and yet world population still went up.
Doomers talk about millions starving in Africa and yet Africa's populations goes up.
The doomer preferred solution of getting rid of people does not work for the purpose that they want. Even their doomsday fantasy of struggling humans killing each other and keeping population low does not work.
Hidden Water
It takes around 3,000 liters of water to produce a burger. In 2012 around five billion burgers were consumed in the UK alone. That's 15 trillion liters of water – on burgers. Just in the UK. Something like 14 billion burgers were consumed in the United States in 2012. That's around 42 trillion liters of water.
So that seems like a lot. How much water do we have ? The US Geological survey explains
1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3). Each cubic kilometer is a trillion liters of water.
The Earth's liquid fresh water in groundwater, swamp water, rivers, and lakes. The volume is 10,633,450 km3.
68% of that water is ice.
How is the water used ?
The world uses freshwater:
• about 70 percent for irrigation
• about 20 percent for industry
• about 10 percent for domestic use
Read more »