floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoTrump tells Trudeau Canada should become 51st state if it doesn't like tariffs: reportwww.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down15
arrow-up1135arrow-down1external-linkTrump tells Trudeau Canada should become 51st state if it doesn't like tariffs: reportwww.rawstory.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·19 days agoAll that snow and ice up there will melt, Canada will have plenty of water to hold over the US’ head.
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·19 days agoThat’s what I mean: the USA will be coming for Canada’s water.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·19 days ago20% of the fresh water in the world (not counting ice blocks) is in the Great Lakes, which divide the U.S. and Canada, fresh water I doubt would be a worry for either.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·19 days agoAren’t most of the middling to good lakes increasingly polluted to the point where they’re not suitable for drinking water, though?
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·19 days agoI mean I know I’ve pissed in the St. Lawrence dozens of times, but I’m sure that’s flushed out by now. I’m sure there is some pollution, but it has to be easier to sanitize that water than to start with ocean water.
minus-squarecm0002@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·19 days agoThat’ll be a great first line for the history book chapter “Beginning of the Water Wars”
All that snow and ice up there will melt, Canada will have plenty of water to hold over the US’ head.
That’s what I mean: the USA will be coming for Canada’s water.
Start building dams?
20% of the fresh water in the world (not counting ice blocks) is in the Great Lakes, which divide the U.S. and Canada, fresh water I doubt would be a worry for either.
Aren’t most of the middling to good lakes increasingly polluted to the point where they’re not suitable for drinking water, though?
I mean I know I’ve pissed in the St. Lawrence dozens of times, but I’m sure that’s flushed out by now.
I’m sure there is some pollution, but it has to be easier to sanitize that water than to start with ocean water.
That’ll be a great first line for the history book chapter “Beginning of the Water Wars”