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Uncomfortable Realities
There seems to be a water crisis in Iran that's unheard of in recent history and right now even some parts of Russia lack clean water, impacting millions of people according to a press report from this week. No matter how you feel about Iranians and Russians, it's a preview of things that will happen to more and more of us as time goes by.
There's also some scientific information from recent years about how the number of birds in our skies is decreasing. Industrialisation and overpopulation (by humans) must be playing a role in this, it's not just because of unfortunate collisions with windows, as deforestation leads to scarcity of food, set aside climate change.
Here in this site we value science and technology. We believe that spreading information is a lot more important than suppressing it. Even "comfortable" lies - e.g. the belief the planet will be fine if the human population doubles every 40-60 years - aren't worth having.
In GNU/Linux and in Free software in general we rely on excellence in science, not deceit and altercation. Good engineering relies on honest people who favour facts, not monopolies or money. █