They lost me to when they called water and energy "scarce resources."
Just because it doesn’t affect you in Portland doesn’t mean water scarcity isn’t a real thing.
That bit is important. A quick glance at Wikipedia: Persuading people to make small sacrifices for the greater good is a crucial challenge of our times, both with pandemics and with environmental problems. Meanwhile, good old Donald continues his streak of coming up with the most damaging policy possible in every department of life: US calls for shower rules to be eased after Trump hair complaintsbuy yea it's not evenly divided.
A mere 0.014% of all water on Earth is both fresh and easily accessible. Of the remaining water, 97% is saline and a little less than 3% is difficult to access. Technically, there is a sufficient amount of freshwater on a global scale. However, due to unequal distribution (exacerbated by climate change) resulting in some very wet and some very dry geographic locations, plus a sharp rise in global freshwater demand in recent decades driven by industry, humanity is facing a water crisis. Demand is expected to outstrip supply by 40% in 2030, if current trends continue.
Oh I got one! The passive aggressiveness energy of people in the PNW!
What a shitty attitude to have, but you do you.
What's passive here and really what's aggressive? Water is one of the most plentiful resources on the planet and calling scarce is nothing but suspect when you are pushing a mist shower. You do have the PNW sensitivity, forgive me if I don't stay so you can work it out.
1) your edit is a lot more of a “trying to have a conversation” as opposed to your initial comment which was entirely dismissive (for those of you reading from home, subtract the second paragraph from cgods comment) 2) did you even bother to give a skim of the link I provided? 3) you’re forgiven and I’m not complaining. Sorry I’m a bit of a snowflake!
Didn't see your comment until after I added my edit. I am aware that water is a troubled resource in many parts of the world and that it's imperiled for many different reasons. I think uhsguy makes the beginning of many good points that could be made about why showers pale in comparison to many other things that threaten our water supply. I'd like to try a mist shower and I bet there are many different situations where a super low flow shower could be a great thing. I should give them credit, they waited for the second paragraph to call water and power scarce. Neither is scarce and yet still man kinds desire to consume both in an almost limitless quantities compared to supply. I admit that I get irked when the opening of a long essay drops some silliness along these lines. I don't really have a problem with his solution or the goal of conservation of resources, I just find Malthusian bullshit irksome and he got my goat.