"Solving" the lack of water by .... eliminating food. Typical excellent work, Alex!https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/1428192471356428289 …
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Replying to @reduxxxy
it pains me beyond words to agree w Now Rash and to disagree with you, but ... he's right. Water should be priced in markets.
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Replying to @MorlockP
Ex nihilo? Sure! But farmers can't eat huge cost increases + that water supplies 15% of America's crops and 13% of livestock. Flippant libertarian "ideology will simply fix this!" solution always reads as stupid to me. IMO, a smart take is one that owns + addresses costs of plan
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Replying to @reduxxxy
yeah, the right way to introduce a new policy is to give offsets to make it net zero at first if right now suburbanites would be WILLING to pay $50/mo for water, and a farmer blows through 15,000 times that much water (so $750,000/mo of value) to GENERATE $5,000/mo of profits...
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2/ ...then the ideal policy play is to issue tradeable certificates to every existing farmer, and every existing municipal water district for their CURRENT claims on water supply many farmers will decide they'd prefer to rent their certificates out to towns for $30,000 / mo >>>
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3/ rather than USE that water to generate $5,000 / mo yes, we can imagine gov stepping in and !@#-ing this up but as far as ideal policy ... it's what I just said. win/win
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