Thread: Wait...so...collecting RAINWATER is ILLEGAL??

Originally Posted by Marvo

Do you think carbondioxide gathered from the atmosphere through plants should be illegal? I'm pretty sure kitchen gardens are legal.

According to the tacit logic here it follows that it's okay to put as much CO2 as you want back into the atmosphere, correct?

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

I fixed it.

Okay, so if I own that stretch of the river I can take all of it and sell it to the people downstream?

Originally Posted by Xei

According to the tacit logic here it follows that it's okay to put as much CO2 as you want back into the atmosphere, correct?

Not really, but CO2 and H2O are both materials that we gather from the atmosphere, generally for the same purposes. Our gardens get water and carbondioxide for the plants. Why is that okay, and gathering it in a barrel is not? That's what I don't understand. The difference between a plant containing water and a barrel containing water is subtle at best.

Originally Posted by Xei

According to the tacit logic here it follows that it's okay to put as much CO2 as you want back into the atmosphere, correct?


Okay, so if I own that stretch of the river I can take all of it and sell it to the people downstream?

No. if you own a piece of land with a river on it, according to purely lassiez faire rules (and not actual legislation) you can do whatever you want to the water while it's passing through your property but before it flows in or after it flows out, you can't act upon it.

We have regulations in place to prevent people from harming the ecosystem by fucking with water that flows onto their property. But we don't prevent people from collecting the water that flows onto their property. Much the same way, can we prevent people from doing what they like with water that falls from above?

It's no longer an environmental issues if they're just collecting water that falls from the sky. It's a scarcity issue. Water is precious, it must be contained and price-tagged so the elite can get their fair share.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

We have regulations in place to prevent people from harming the ecosystem by fucking with water that flows onto their property. But we don't prevent people from collecting the water that flows onto their property. Much the same way, can we prevent people from doing what they like with water that falls from above?

Bottled water brought from other places is very harmfull to the ecosystem where they were taken from, that water doesn't come back, and it ends up drying the whole river. So... we have little water... mmm lets just take it away from other places and at the same time put a much higer price tag on it.