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Learning some 2% of water is fresh and the need to conserve water or it will run out by 2050 was a lie. There will always be fresh water and oil. The price will not soar when supply is limited, there usually happens to be a new discovery. Eg. The US is a huge unexploited oil field

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Learning some 2% of water is fresh and the need to conserve water or it will run out by 2050 was a lie.

The word you're looking for is wrong, unless you're claiming that there was a conspiracy to keep this knowledge a secret.

I don't like being the tinfoil hat in a discussion, but given that what most tinfoil hats have been thinking wrt NSA, etc have been proven true thanks to Snowden, maybe there is a conspiracy to keep clean fresh water a secret to start a civil war on water rights in the US.

And if not, it'd probably make for a good movie.

It won't ever be economical to extract water from 600km below the surface. Also, oil won't last forever.

Well, the stone age didn't end for lack of stones.

Stone is a construction material, not a power source.

It's economical to desalinize seawater (once memorably [to me] described as "the most worthless substance in the world") now. We don't do it because using already-fresh water is even cheaper, but desalinization isn't exactly expensive.

Source on the economics of desalinization? Everything I have ever seen have put it at pretty expensive. Would love to see a per gallon or liter price.

As a person who thinks the opposite, this comes as a shock to me. Care to explain?

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