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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Experts believe that Trump was talking about the Columbia river...". No, that's not what he was talking about. He's a weird, demented, old man. He literally believes, there is a giant faucet floating somewhere over Canada.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I swear some poor bastard has to explain shit to this moron and has to dumb it down. I'm sure they used a metaphor to simplify and all that stuck was B.C. is like a faucet, it flows south. He then gets in front of the camera and confidently spews the mangled idea like a game of telephone.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

“I will build a faucet and BC will pay for it”

[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

haha no thanks
this parasitic behavior is unwelcome here

make it fair for BC citizens and then we'll see

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

make it fair for BC citizens

Trump doesn't know the meaning of the word "fair".

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“We have to go in and take the ~~oil~~ water.”

This isn’t gonna mix well with the BC public.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

Nestle will fight him

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Canada's military holds a world record.

Let's calmly talk about America not stealing water.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What world record is that? :o cos I thought America famously had a massively bloated military budget, to the detriment of the rest of that country

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

We may have a different record on a moving objective at a similarly bonkers range.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Antweiler added that there is a lot that California can and should do to manage their water sources, including the use of water in agriculture.

One suggestion I would make to California and BC is to limit animal agriculture water use as 1kg of beef uses 15,415 litres of water to produce.

Source

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

This is another of those "things that I would like but are pretty unrealistic." If the goal is to cut down on beef, the price would either go up drastically or we'd put farmers into something less lucrative and just import our beef.

Regardless, the public, of whom many if not most eat beef, would be furious. I struggle to see a government that could pass this and last an election without having this overturned by the next government rather quickly.

That being said, it'd be nice. But nice in the same way that everyone being vegetarian and not wearing sweatshop clothes would be nice.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate your comment but love your source. There’s no perspective when you say 1 kg of beef uses 15415 L of water to produce. Is that a lot? Is that a little?

Your source puts that into perspective - it’s a lot. But I wish they’d put it into calories/L of water. I don’t eat based on kg of food. I eat based on kcal and nutrition

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

2900 calories

A regular bath is 150L of water, you need enough water to fill 100 baths to produce 1kg of beef

Chicken is at just over a quarter in water needs while tofu is at a sixth of beef in water needs. 1650 calories for chicken, 830 calories for tofu, so chicken has the best water/calories ratio...

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And chicken has higher protein content, I believe.

I guess cows should be Kobe or nothing…

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

About 25% for beef vs 20% for chicken, give or take

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

We got enough water shortages up here already.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] m4xie@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His son? What happened to the deputy PM?

[–] CalPal@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have the distinct feeling that this movie could have been produced in the US, which, let's be fair, they would not really understand how a succession crisis would work in Canada (Also, we have another Trudeau in office, so it's not entirely unrealistic for a son to take over). Or if it is a Canadian producer, they likely over-simplified the process by which a son could suddenly be elevated to the position of PM, which... yeah, a movie isn't really gonna cover how difficult that would be.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If only there were a convenient link you could follow that gave you an opportunity to read about the film and, in particular, see where it was produced and who produced it....

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