>>13480930The nice thing about water is that it will replenish itself if we reduce our consumption.
The main issue is unironically that we have forced the world to adopt capitalism, which requires infinite growth to continue and that infinite growth is much much harder to sustain if we reduce the global population or try to conserve resources.
The inevitable outcome of the capitalism crunch will be one of several:
A: we abandon capitalism for a more sustainable system that allows us to reduce global population size and resource consumption
B: we continue using capitalism and eventually run out of some key resource, massive famine or war depletes population to a point where capitalism can resume. This likely will continue until we exhaust something we can't easily get more of (uranium, fossil fuels, specific organisms necessary to human survival)
C: we expand beyond the confines of Earth and exploit new sources of growth (note, if we continue our population and economic growth at our current rate, we will expend all the resources in the Milky Way Galaxy within a few ten thousands of years at the most)
I'm by no means a commie, but it should be obvious to the barest intelligence that a system that requires infinite growth within a finite system is doomed to fail.