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1 month ago · tagged #even when it creates more than two orders of magnitude more value to you than it takes from me #also the second person in this country to take the GWWC pledge #whatever the outcome is #when there are trumps and other populists around #so why the fuck are you blaming nestle instead #also how on earth did the us become rojava's air force #this is what a feminism sometimes looks like #and it's not like you could've asked to buy them from me either because that's illegal too #i never said my ideals and goals were consistent without post-scarcity economies #shitposting · 28,125 notes · .permalink
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Nestlé, a multi-national company valued at $247 billion dollars, gets it’s bottled water from Lake Michigan FOR FREE. That’s 400 gallons of water per minute, for the low low price of completely free. Even worse, Nestlé receives a $13 million dollar tax break from the state of Michigan. Worse still, Nestlé recently took legal action against Flint residents for making “disparaging comments” about the company.
Meanwhile, the disproportionately Black residents of Flint are still being charged for POISONED drinking water…that they can’t drink, cook or bathe with. Not only that, but the residents of Flint are paying among the highest water bills in the country. (source)
So again, exactly when will Rick Snyder and his Emergency City Manager be arrested for crimes against humanity?
(please see related post »here)
weren’t they the ones also fucking up Californians when the drought was at its worst?
YES !!! (source)
This is a really good time to note that this all began because of the Snyder administration’s long term goal to privatize Michigan’s water system, so that private, for-profit businesses like
Nestlé could further profitize clean water, a basic necessity for human life.
Chris Christie has already signed a bill authorizing the privatization of New Jersey’s municipal water system (source), and it doesn’t take much imagination to envision other Republican governors (or neoliberal ConservaDems) will do the same. All while simultaneously trying to defund or completely eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency and other laws mandating clean drinking water. (source)
Also, it’s a good time to remember that Republicans are trying to repeal the Clean Water Drinking Act, and thanks to Dick Cheney, that same law does not apply to drinking water sources contaminated by fracking. (source)
Finally, I know it might seem a little far fetched, but before I continue with my last point (beneath the cut), please understand that when David Koch was running for vice president in the 1980s, his Libertarian Platform was roundly dismissed as too conservative or ridiculous, even by Republicans. But fast foward to 2016, and today the Republican platform is nearly indistinguishable from the Koch’s 1980 platform….so long range, strategic political planning is an actual thing…..
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Every new thing I hear about Nestle makes me worry about our future as both a nation and a species a little bit more.
I don’t know anything about most of this post, but Nestle’s contribution to the water shortage in CA is waaaay overblown.
The CA water system has 40 million acre feet of water in it. 705 million gallons of water– the amount Nestle was using– is about two thousand acre feet, or literally one twenty-thousandth.
Saying Nestle plays any significant role in the Californian water crisis is literally like saying that the reason you’re in debt is because you bought a pack of Skittles one time.
Yes, it’s actually farmers who are the evil corporate conspiracy stealing massive amounts of vital water from others for their own gain. Economically inefficient gain, most importantly. Eradicating alfalfa, rice and pastures would save roughly 10% of all water in California (or almost 20% of all water directly used by human activities) while reducing the value of agricultural production by only 7%.
The margins on bottled water are high enough that my favoured solution for water management (sell a sustainable total amount to the highest bidders, share profits to people living in the area) would probably optimize away quite a lot of things before really inconveniencing Nestle even in the most severe first-world droughts. And that’s how it should be; if Nestle wants that water so hard, they’ll pay for it and it’d be the best thing ever because all that nestlemoney goes straight to the pockets of the poor people whose fuckhueg water bills would turn to magical water dividends instead. Water is vital and important, that’s exactly why it must be managed as a market (and clean water should be guaranteed by giving people money to participate on the market) instead of a free human right, AKA a lawless free-for-all for industrial-scale looters.
Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if “Nestle getting free water while people in Flint are poisoned” actually means “Nestle has its own pipe into Lake Michigan and its own water treatment system and isn’t even situated anywhere near Flint (as evident from them getting their water from Lake Michigan which is on the other side of the goddamn state!) but we hate Nestle so we don’t give a shit about inconvenient facts”. What I know for certain is that Flint wouldn’t have been poisoned if Detroit hadn’t thrown a känkkäränkkä (that’s finnish for the kind of a tantrum kids do at the candy section of a supermarket) at Flint’s decision to build its own water system and cut their water several years before the new infrastructure was ready out of sheer spite, forcing Flint to seek emergency water from elsewhere with the disastrous results we’re all too familiar with now.
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4 months ago · tagged #win-win is my superpower #this is the exact place where you hippies should be blaming evil big agro #so why the fuck are you blaming nestle instead #i can't even #you had one job · 12,174 notes · source: odinsblog · .permalink
