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The west coast of the USA will be a desert very soon. Probably within a few years. Soon 40 million people will be without sanitation water. Then the next step is no drinking water.


How soon is soon?


Never. We will spend trillions of dollars to pump and desalinate, and as we do so costs will come down.


You say that now, but our leaders have regressed to such a degree that I don't believe they have any kind of foresight to plan ahead more than a couple years.




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