Astral Codex Ten

Israel-Palestine

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Israel-Palestine

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Israel-Palestine is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 30, 2021 and December 01, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “National Water Carrier Project of Israel-Palestine made life in the Fertile Crescent possible”; “the National Water Carrier Project of Israel-Palestine made life in the Fertile Crescent possible”; “An attempt to put Israel-Palestine in context by mapping it onto the SF Bay Area”. It most often appears alongside Arizona, California, GiveWell.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 30, 2021
  • Last seen: December 01, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Your Book Review: The Wizard And The Prophet
April 30, 2021 · Original source
In "Water," again, the Wizards have a solid track record. The Wizardly California State Water Project transformed a desert into the most productive farmland and state in the nation; the National Water Carrier Project of Israel-Palestine made life in the Fertile Crescent possible for millions of Jewish refugees. Desalination projects (expensive, but with nearly bottomless potential, given how huge our oceans are) have de-escalated the fight for shrinking groundwater resources in California and the Middle East. In this arena, the Prophets have been a little more successful in offering alternative conservation-oriented solutions that have stuck: storm and wastewater reclamation, drip irrigation, and behavioral change campaigns to encourage more frugal water usage that have seeped (pun intended) so deeply into the public consciousness that running the tap while brushing your teeth feels as illicit as lighting up a cigarette. All of these measures do little, though, to solve the fundamental underlying problem of massive urban growth in water-scarce areas like the American Sunbelt; if anything, growing water efficiency among consumers exacerbates the problem by shrinking utility profits and forcing them to either cut back on much-needed infrastructure repair and service improvement or raise water costs. Conservation and reclamation can only do so much; they can’t provide water to the exploding populations of Arizona or Sub-Saharan Africa.
Inline links: California State Water Project, National Water Carrier Project, shrinking utility profits and forcing them to either cut back on much-needed infrastructure repair and service improvement or raise water costs
Links For November 2023
December 01, 2023 · Original source
47: An attempt to put Israel-Palestine in context by mapping it onto the SF Bay Area at the same scale (source, or click to enlarge):
Inline links: source