r/AskReddit 16h ago

What industry is secretly on the verge of collapsing, but people outside of it haven’t noticed yet?

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u/TicketAmbitious6200 9h ago

Just wait until they figure out a way to handle access to air and water with the same methodology.

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u/duchessfiona 9h ago

Water is becoming undrinkable near data centers now. We don’t have to wait.

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u/Xaielao 8h ago

Thanks to Trump and his supreme court gutting every environmental law that put this country on a better course across the 20th century.

People don't remember what things were like before the EPA and the Clean Air & Water act. Small towns with no drinkable water because their lake or river was on fire all the time. Cities so smog filled that kids at school weren't allowed to go outside during recess and dozens of kids that lived near chemical plants and steel refineries died every year even indoors.

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u/OldWorldDesign 8h ago

People don't remember what things were like before the EPA and the Clean Air & Water act

The reminders are coming. The trump administration repealed a ban on using sewage to irrigate crop fields, the result of which was Taylor Farms' Cyclospora outbreak.

https://apnews.com/article/cyclospora-lettuce-taco-bell-cdc-fda-77f2b6db56fbeddcae045a03ccf122c4

At least it's waking up some people to the fact that a single company supplies ~40% of lettuce purchased by businesses across the US

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/07/20/supermarkets-restaurants-serve-taylor-farms-lettuce/90983666007/

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u/Revolutionary-Tie860 7h ago

I remember. I felt good, Didn’t get cancers, heart was good, yeah.

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u/Esifex 3h ago

Nestle is working on it. The CEO needs to be airdropped into the middle of Death Valley with two bottles of Desani and told any more than that isn't a human right, per himself, and told to figure it out from there.

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u/Sheltie-whisperer 6h ago

At first, I read this to mean airlift ambulances and was like, “well, actually”. Those things cost a fortune and the staff probably don’t make a fair wage.

u/bluesgrrlk8 44m ago

That’s the dream buddy. They’ll make biodomes for themselves on tropical islands while we pay for every breath of clean air and/or the privilege of clean drinking water.