Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 08:53:44 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote in
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 13:11:32 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:
 

In article <v40kks$2f5g0$2@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 6/7/2024 9:29 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 09:29:15 +0100, Robert Carnegie

 

>
I don't think I ever said it was a big film. It was a film about a
young man who leaves his small town for the big city and eventually
saves the town from dying of thirst. It has some action, but the story
is, how should I say this?, rather ordinary.=20
>
When the second reboot Bond film (/Qantum of Solace/) come out, it was
roundly ridiculed for treater water as a vital resource.

 
Cite?
 
Ever seen Chinatown?
 

Oh hell, the southwestern US states, various Native American groups and
Mexico have been legally fighting over the water from the Colorado River
for _decades_.

>
Which is weird. Shouldn't the free market have responded to scarcity
by providing an alternative to water?

 
Indeed it should. As D would, no doubt, contend.

Alternatives to water, no.  Alternative _sources_ of water -- it's
been talked about.

I remember an SF short story about bringing an iceberg to LA.  Couldn't
tell you who wrote it, but I think it was in the 80's.

There are also desalination plants, skipping the water cycle
through adding energy and technology.

BTW, these suggestions are not to meant to support D's ideas;
most definitely not those about regulation and government.  For
example, natural monopolies need, at the very least, regulation,
if not government administration.

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