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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (16 children)

It's strange how the disproportionality of wealth makes theft seem ok.

[–] Madison420 14 points 1 year ago (14 children)

In this case it doesn't, you're stealing luxury items that are playing a huge huge role in water consumption. It's like 91 liters of water per day per tree.

And an academic study focusing on global implications for water scarcity from the growth in avocado production says that that growing avocado requires “four times more water than the production of a kilo of oranges and ten times of that of a kilo of tomato”.

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