{"product":{"product_id":"159726637X","title":"The Great Lakes Water Wars","price":"14.57","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51k600mHZIL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/159726637X"},"comments":[{"body":"You don't get it. Like, your ignorance is blinding on my side and I don't have time to teach you. You don't even seem to understand that the US will not be able to support the amount of refugees that will be created. We will not even be able to support ourselves down the road.\r\n\r\nThere are several books on water that I suggest you read if you actually care, I suspect you don't care enough to, but please prove me wrong. [Here](https://www.amazon.com/Great-Lakes-Water-Wars/dp/159726637X) is a good one to start with if you live in the US. Water is going to be our first truly catastrophic problem, that actually already has been a catastrophic problem. We're going to see more and more and more Cape Towns in the very near future.\r\n\r\n[This](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/cape-town-water-crisis-cities-should-prepare-for-water-scarcity.html) is what is going on while we talk about Stormy Daniels.  You have to educate yourself as to how fucked we really are if you want to have meaningful discussions otherwise these discussions are circle jerks in echo chambers.","subreddit_name":"politics","author":"Bankster-"},{"body":"I take contracts from all over. I'm likely moving to Houston for some large contracts that are being put together at the moment.\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;Please link me an article that shows recent urban sprawl worldwide is mainly under ground\r\n\r\nThis isn't something I'm a specialist in, which is I why I put out that bit about being interested in the ratio in NYC where I'm sure there is a ton of data that someone running across this will have hard data on. \r\n\r\nI work with engineers, but I am not an engineer. I'm interested in city planning and take part in the process, but am not a city planner. I specialize in mitigation of environmental problems like the heat island effect and storm water management. My goal is to keep the water out of the underground systems or at least clean it out before it enters- not to build underground infrastructure to withstand a 1,000 year flood event- which we are failing across the country at an alarming rate. \r\n\r\nThe underground growth that I'm referring to is commercial, industrial, and military. Most of that information is not readily available for obvious reasons. Some things to look at are salt mines, underground storage, transportation (Minnesota is a great example beyond trains), and military stuff you can usually only find evidence of on the surface like entrances, vents, and radio towers. \r\n\r\nLook at the Denver airport. The amount of bedrock removed and piled up outside was outstanding. The underground construction continued for years after it's completion- still might be going on. [Military's all over the world are building undergound bases.](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00666/china-nuclear-cave-_666945c.jpg) That one is on the artificial island they built in the South China Sea and is believe to be a submarine base entrance.\r\n\r\nPersonally, I think underground facilities are our future for several different things, mostly utility, and other reasons as we turn more eco-conscious, but it's obvious to see the commercial, industrial, and military benefits which we know are already being employed. I think in the next 50 years this is where we are going to manage most of our water storage as well- especially out west. What we're doing in places like Southern California, Nevada, and Utah right now is fucking criminal. \r\n\r\nThis is turning into a water post. Water is going to be the political issue of the next 100 years causing wars and refugees like most people can't even imagine yet. It's already happening in Africa.\r\n\r\nHere is a book about [the issues of the Great Lakes](https://www.amazon.com/Great-Lakes-Water-Wars/dp/159726637X). I haven't read it yet, but I've been told it's something I should be familiar with professionally and am getting to this winter. Just thought I'd share it if you're interested. A lot of my work is shifting towards water and that was not what I set out to do or really wanted to do, but it's where we're going to be needed.","subreddit_name":"worldnews","author":"Bankster-"}]}