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Here in the Netherlands it's the exact opposite. We have infinite water, just not a lot of space.

Manatee farms when?

And then in Germany... Fly over with Google Earth or similar.

It's basically all farms and cities now. Several of the forests left are mere tree plantations.

Perhaps one day the yearly reminder that our forests are dying will stop because there's none left.

European forest area has actually increased as modern farming made land use more efficient so we could reduce farm area. The forests were cut down centuries ago. All farming in Europe has to be sustainable since there is no farmland left to expand into.

https://ourworldindata.org/exports/forest-area-as-share-of-l...

Given the satellite pictures I'm looking at, that graph cannot really comfort me, but thanks for trying.

Water isn’t particularly scarce in the US either. Just because a handful of states are managing their resources sub-optimally doesn’t mean the whole country has a shortage.