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		betaby 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Sci... Let's concentrate on couple of countries to simplify the discussion: Iran, Egypt, Algeria. Water scarcity there is dominated by explosive population growth there in the last 70 years. Water is not scarce in general, just yet. It scarce where population is exploding.

mring33621 35 days ago [–]

High birth rates in low-resource localities seems like a poor survival strategy.

Unless the new people are used as an army to take the needed resources from others...

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