Yea it’s clearly a person who doesn’t understand how gdp works

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This is sounding a lot like that speech Bill Gates gave years ago where he said that, (can't remember exact quote) with birth control and vaccinations we could reduce the world population by 10%-15%. As such I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or are as demented as Billy boy there. Hopefully the former 🤞

Where I work we use hundreds of thousands of litres of water a day just to produce fizzy poisons for people to drink with their meals. Seems to me all the 'experts' always throw everything on us. Turn the lights off, drive less, eat less, use less plastic, while the whole time multi-billion dollar corporations giggle all the way to the bank with government subsidies and tax breaks.

It's a pretty fucked up world. I'm glad I had my kids already. I know a lot of people who've given up on a future generation after the last 2-3 years

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From the Article

>Rolls-Royce has received funding from the UK Space Agency to develop a nuclear reactor for a Moon base.
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>The project will look into how nuclear power could be used to support a future base on the Moon for astronauts.
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>Scientists and engineers at the British company are working on the micro-reactor programme to develop technology that will provide power needed for humans to live and work on Earth's natural satellite.
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>All space missions depend on a power source to support systems for communications, life-support and science experiments.
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>Experts suggest nuclear power could potentially dramatically increase the length of lunar missions.
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>The UK Space Agency has announced £2.9 million of new funding for the project which will deliver an initial demonstration of a UK lunar modular nuclear reactor.

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If population growth doesn’t continue then how will the corporations have endless growth and profits?

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Years after, Chernobyl animals started to return. Maybe the scientists are hoping to build up the wildlife in the area. LOL! On a more serious side, please tell me they are looking to use Thorium rather than uranium.

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>> £2.9 million of new funding for the project which will deliver an initial demonstration of a UK lunar modular nuclear reactor

That seems unlikely unless Rolls Royce is putting a lot of funding on their own.

we can't really change our ways. We're basically a big macro-organism. Our best chance is techno-evolving to drink ocean water.

If this graphic is true, it clearly shows agriculture, which uses 95% of the water, should be the main target, and even a 5% reduction in their use would double the amount of water available to cities and industry.

Why are we even talking about anything else?

From the Article

>Rolls-Royce has received funding from the UK Space Agency to develop a nuclear reactor for a Moon base.
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>The project will look into how nuclear power could be used to support a future base on the Moon for astronauts.
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>Scientists and engineers at the British company are working on the micro-reactor programme to develop technology that will provide power needed for humans to live and work on Earth's natural satellite.
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>All space missions depend on a power source to support systems for communications, life-support and science experiments.
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>Experts suggest nuclear power could potentially dramatically increase the length of lunar missions.
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>The UK Space Agency has announced £2.9 million of new funding for the project which will deliver an initial demonstration of a UK lunar modular nuclear reactor.

Affordable large scale desalination and investment in fresh water conservation and reclamation, as well as sustainable agriculture practices would be the solution.

They don't use the same water.

This is so true. Rather than work on extreme but workable solutions, there's more likely to be a catastrophic event that decimates our population to make our world more sustainable.

Population decline in first world countries is offset by population growth in third world countries.

Exactly. It's corporations, big agriculture that's consuming by far the vast majority of water where I'm at, NOT the everyday family. We can't let them convince us we the people are the problem when theyre the ones over consuming simply because they own the land/royalties. Not fair to give themselves a free pass and put the responsibility on everyday ppl. But hey that's american oligarchy.

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We have desalinization tech that has already solved the problem. Oceans have trace minerals that add to the value of the process. We seem to BS. this whole idea with the bean counters claiming it costs too much. How much do you think it costs to send a gallon of water up in space? Sailboats have small desalinization systems on board now.

We were all taught that this would happen starting almost thirty five years ago in school. Shocked Pikachu faces shouldn't be a reaction by anyone.

Happy to live where we get fucking obliterated by snow fall every damned year and it's getting worse with global climate change. at least fresh water won't be an issue where we live. Keeping other people from other areas away from it sure as hell may turn into one though.

All of the evidence points to population growth slowing down naturally. Most of the advanced economies are experiencing it right now, but just offsetting with immigration.

What this article (accurately) points out, is that agriculture and industry are enormous consumers of water - many times greater than personal usage. There are huge efficiencies to be made by re-engineering some of those processes, however, I'm skeptical because that may involve a hit to the bottom line and we couldn't have those shareholders struggling.

Look at the UK, not a single new fresh water reservoir built since water supply was privatised, despite the population growing significantly. We don't have a water problem, we don't have a population problem, we have a capitalism problem

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We will never outstrip supply, people will drop like flies bringing demand back down.