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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The water consumption thing is such a meme. Power consumption? Yup. Waste heat? We got that. Pollution? I don't know but I can take a guess!

Water? Eh. Barely.

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Except for the many of them being built in the fucking desert, where water access is already a huge problem.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yea the water isint being destroyed or used up. Its getting back into the ecosystem through some way (hopefully sans pollutants)

utilization is what goes up and that takes away from people, plants and animals that need it. Basically water bandwidth.

[–] lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] shrodes@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I read this many years ago now which covers various metrics across the different types of milk and “milk”

https://blog.bramp.net/post/2021/04/03/alternative-milks/

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I just googled if almonds or ai was worse for the environment and google ai said almonds are bad.

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 32 points 1 day ago

Gemini currently answering that question

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The almond industry is also unfathomably lethal to bees. If you care about bees, eat honey, not almonds—honey producers need their bees alive and well, while almond growers merrily slaughter them by the billions to force off season crops into existence.

[–] lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure why I can’t just eat neither?

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Sorry, it's almonds or bees. There is no 3rd option :(

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Mono cropping in general has killed so many insects. It's truly absurd. The knock-on effects and damage to the habitats around farms is wild because of it. Unironically plants are murder.

Humans are really bad at not killing everything.

The majority of the plants we grow are fed to animals first which reduces the calories by over 8x. So if anyone wants to reduce their “plant murder” that’s a good place to start.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Ironically the same bees OP is lamenting about are the reason so many pollinators have died off.

Honey bees are aggressive foragers, and it's really a shame we rely on monocrops because it means we also rely on the same honey bees that are killing all our native bees and pollinators.

[–] Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 0 points 12 hours ago

AI justifies killing animals.

[–] Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

You're gonna get death threats.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Them almond titties dry up without enough water.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You can if you're bitlocker and nobody has a yellow thumb drive.

[–] seggturkasz@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm sure people don't irrigate almonds with drinking water. The comparison is kind of meaningless...

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless they use salt water they draw from the same supply of groundwater or surface water as drinking water.

Drinking water is usually surface water or groundwater pumped from a lake/river or a drilled hole in the ground passed through a filter, an UV light to kill bacteria, and possibly some chemicals added to get the correct pH.

The limiting factor for how much drinking water you can make is how much you can pump out of the ground/lake before it dries up.

[–] seggturkasz@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You don't know much about irrigation or farming do you? I don't know about the US but here in the EU, at least where I live, there is like a 2 magnitude difference between pumping water from a channel versus buying tap water.

Its like ploting the number of people buying food at a fast food joint and a Michelin star restaurant. While both serv food it's weird and misleading to compare it...

And why do you mention salt water? How is that a factor? Neither uses salt water.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

80% of Almonds are grown in California. Your turn.