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We Have Concerns

Thirst World Problems

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Everything we eat is flooded with “virtual water,” or water used indirectly to produce food from cradle to grave. In fact, 70% of the world’s water consumption feeds the agriculture industry, and demand for fresh water is increasing at a rate of one trillion liters a year. The GRACE Communications Foundation wants people thinking more critically about the water in their food, and has released a report that includes the average global water footprints for some of our most beloved—and resource-hogging—foods. Anthony and Jeff step through these findings and try to decide what to do with the information.

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0:00.0

Hey, this show is entirely listener supported. That's you, you're a listener. If you want to support the show,

0:04.4

find out how to get bonus content and early episodes and monthly video hangouts with me and Jeff,

0:09.9

you can head to patreon.com slash we have concerns.

0:13.1

Fuck it disappeared me like well it's been 40 years and nobody found it and I had a million dollars in now I'm dead. Yeah. This is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff.

0:34.0

Can I have any car boni hello concerned citizens water.

0:39.7

Sounds delicious. Building block of life and so much more it's water water it's wet. This episode brought to you by water. I don't know why water has it's not like bottled water. No, no, it's just

0:52.7

brand water just somehow water dig deep enough in your yard you'll find water. It's crazy like who's spending this money. I don't

1:00.9

understand just on what like we're all aware of water. Yeah, I mean, we're not going to turn down an advertiser. Certainly not. Yeah, we need the money, but like just water when it rains that's water like we know that though, but like we have to play these I'm sorry we have to play.

1:15.6

Paying us a lot. We're getting paid a lot of money just I guess to inform you about water. It seems crazy. But you know, this is not like a fucking loop crater something in my right everybody.

1:26.4

Like you already know about lucray, but you fucking know about water. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? But no water is something that I've been thinking about a lot lately.

1:37.8

Is your thirsty because I'm thirsty and I forgot to bring a glass of water out here with me. Yeah, but also.

1:44.2

All the news about the ice sheets. Oh, man, the fact that our environmental protection agency is going to be pulled apart from the inside.

1:51.8

Most likely and a lot of environmental protections are going to be here on the way literally on the way here to record. There was a story at MPR about the EPA due during his confirmation hearing was saying like, you know that law that California passed to make more stringent car emissions standards than the rest of the nation.

2:13.0

And we let them do that. We're going to repeal that. We're going to repeal that. Because as Republicans, we hate states rights.

2:19.4

But I don't understand. I don't understand how can they do that opposite of what they've always said also because he's an oil executive.

2:29.0

What kind of cartoon villain? Okay, here comes your 30 seconds. Hey, people breathing clean air. Well, how can your position be anti air? How is every position? I don't understand.

2:43.1

Sorry. Okay, that was your 30 seconds. So because I've been thinking about water a lot lately.

2:48.8

I've been interested in like where our water is going. What do you do with all this water? Like we're drinking it.

2:54.2

Like we're told that we're in a drought, right?

2:55.7

It's a P in it. And we are in a drought.

2:57.3

Yeah, sometimes a swim in it. Although actually, we're not in as bad a drought as we were.

3:02.4

Thanks to we have had the here in California. We've had the wettest winter in six years.

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