Glen Reynolds writes on the origin and destiny of the Tea Party.
This week's issue in my county is a desalination plant that's going through the state permit process in nearby Corpus Christi. There are a few genuinely thorny issues about how to site the plant, but much of the public commentary is starting to sound to me like Reynolds's contrast between makers and takers. People seem to have no idea where the things they consume come from. The trees that were felled to make a site for their own home years ago mean nothing, but the next guy is a criminal for altering a pristine landscape to build something new on land his hyper-virtuous neighbors couldn't be bother to buy and keep as a preserve on their own nickel. Their drinking water comes from an RO plant that treats brackish groundwater, but no evil corporation should be able to build a desalination facility to serve a new industry, though it relies on exactly the same RO technology. Where do these people send their wastewater? They neither know nor care. The other guy's waste is always the issue.
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Geothermal and nano bio molecular filters for salt water are the tech foundationz of the next golden dawn or golden race.
Magnetic particls attached to salt, huge magnets, equals clean water. If you find the companies doing this and invest, consider it a free bil gift from the divine counsel.
Dont let the ds sabotage it though.
At the risk of sound kinda get-off-my-lawn-ish, I think the problem is much broader than just not understanding how we get the things we consume. Many people seem to have no sense of 'process' any more, that getting to a desirable result requires certain inputs and methods. Milk comes from a story, meals require a minute in the microwave, pop a pill if you want lose weight or feel better, justice happens because of a decree.
I would gladly fund a preserve of only I had the funds.
Ah, but you do! That's the magic of OPM.
"I would gladly fund a preserve of only I had the funds."
You individually, may not, but get a few other people together (or a few thousand or ten thousand) and you might. Nature Conservancy works on that principle, and I supported them for a time because of it, but for some reason I stopped- I don't even recall why now. Perhaps because I didn't have a specific target and I didn't see that others would turn to privatization as Nature Conservancy did as a solution. Socialists wouldn't, I suppose, and that's part of the problem.
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