• jodawznev@sh.itjust.works
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    3 个月前

    Article title seems disingenuous according to this paragraph, but still interesting:

    The solar boom has coincided with the rapid depletion of water tables in Pakistan’s most populous province, according to previously unreported Punjab water authority documents viewed by Reuters. The documents did not pinpoint any cause.

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      Availability of cheap decentralized power as enabler of tragedy of the commons in form of groundwater table depletion is entirely plausible though.