Rivers are rapidly warming, losing oxygen; aquatic life at risk, study finds | Hacker News
Expect things to continue to get worse. Fish stocks are already on the brink of collapse and I'm almost certain it will happen in my lifetime. reply reply I am curious to hear your insights. I watch the traffic like this too and try to tally up as many as I can as I try to count 1000 cars. How do you record what you find? reply reply reply That by itself doesn't add or remove any credit to the study. reply reply reply Ok, done!
The British government privatised all the UK water companies some years ago. It turned out just about as well as you would expect. Turns out its much cheaper to pump shit into the rivers and risk the occasional paltry fine than to invest in infrastructure. Meanwhile you can load the water company with debt and pay massive dividends to the private equity companies and foreign investors that own the companies. And consumers have no choice, because each company is a monopoly. Marvellous. The privatization of infrastructure is basically theft. Take from the public, and gift to private…
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