Augustus Doricko

The Jordan River, which flows through and supplies water to and gets water from Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon...

That's a real hotspot for water rights, right?

If there's not enough water there, tensions will rise.

China is building dams in Tibet to prevent water from flowing into India.

If Eastern India doesn't get enough water and those people are at risk of starvation, India will go to war with China to destroy those dams.

Can you prevent someone from building a dam in their own territory?

No, maybe you can negotiate that diplomatically.

But even if they do build a dam, if you can make it rain more on your side of the border, then you can provide water supply to mitigate the risk of conflict like this breaking out.

So I think that for the sake of, one, preventing wars by ensuring that people have access to enough water, and two, feeding people so that you don't have mass famine, that's absolutely necessary.

And something that people don't think about is like,

Okay, in the US, everybody can more or less go buy like a bag of chips or something at the store.

Like there are people that are hungry.

There are not that many people that are starving in the United States, but the less we farm,

the more people around the world will starve because our agricultural exports feed hundreds of millions.

If we run out of water, yeah, fine.

Maybe folks in Sacramento won't have any issues, but the people that are eating the pistachios or wheat that we produce, they will have real life-threatening problems.

Water supply

I think the only thing more important that is probably like oxygen.

And then after that energy, right?

We need those three things to have a civilization at all.