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my point here is not a veiled rhetorical argument, but to encourage visualization.

water infrastructure is easy to imagine as large and vast: dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, big pipes, river canals, etc and one can see water used in fountains, pools and cisterns.

the internet is often consumed individually in small wireless devices like smartphones. you can’t easily visualized the electricity consumed through a cable or wirelessly, as a resource that depletes life from the planet. fossil fuels burning, or the metals and minerals ro make solar panels and batteries. big massive holes in the ground in south america for copper, in africa for lithium, and huge pollution in china for manufacturing, and then the waste from the obsolete electronics deposited in huge poisonous mountains all over the place.