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[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We already have the means. Hell, we can even desalinate ocean water into potable drinking water if needed.

Capitalism just means we’ve decided societally that it’s too cost prohibitive so fuck those people, we’ve got artificial scarcity to maintain for profits.

Correction, Capitalism just means capital has decided that its effective to invest YOUR capital to wage war and impoverish entire nations so OUR use of capital can gain modest returns for the shareholders of the fewest percentage of capital holders.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And how will you contain the mountains of salt?

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hmm, can’t think of anything to do with that with a need for food globally. Not like it preserves food or… oh wait, it does exactly that.

If you put as much effort into considering ways this could be done as you do looking for excuses why it can’t, we’d have already solved world hunger.