• Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Also, flooding the earth with seawater makes the land harder to inhabit for settlers afterward, and could fuck up the water table in adjacent areas as well. This is likely the same reason Israel is reluctant to use nukes – They want that land to be worth stealing at the end of the day.

    • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      To add to this, a huge part of the Israeli propaganda machine focused on Evangelicals leans heavily on the idea that Israel ‘makes the deserts bloom’ via magic irrigation techniques only white people could figure out so polluting the land specifically with sea water might be too bad a look for them on that front