[rdiddly]

Remove moisture from the air on any significant scale, and you're depriving someone else of rain, downwind. It's another finite resource. Unforeseen consequences abound.

You know, there are places where water falls out of the air on its own, and if you don't spoil the hell out of the landscape you can even drink it. Give it a rest, humans.

[rdiddly]

Oh so we really believe the solution to all problems, including those directly caused by human technology, is going to end up being more technology? That the solution to human-caused complexity is more complexity? (With no diminishment whatsoever in returns?) That the solution to human actions that change the climate is more human changes to the climate? Because Progress? No skepticism at all huh?

Nobody subscribes to any quaint notions anymore such as "Extracting water from air is known as rain, and it's free," or "There are already too many humans, living in too many inhospitable places, enabled by technology," or even something as simple as "Hey I can keep two contradictory ideas in my head at the same time like 'I work on technology' yet 'Technology always has a downside'?"

There's an old apocryphal saying along the lines of (please say this in the stereotyped voice of Tonto or any Native American portrayed by Hollywood): Red man build small fire, keep warm. White man build big fire, keep warm by chopping wood.

Just thought I'd throw that in, since it's roughly analogous.

The human population needs to be cut back to within a sensible ecological planetary carrying-capacity, not be further propped up by ever-more exotic tech. The cutback will happen regardless, when these technologies inevitably fail or lead to worse problems that feed back on each other. But it's still frustrating that everybody wants to just rush headlong into the brick wall instead of hitting the brakes, and that anybody who has any foresight is automatically some Luddite or old-timer. Like people fresh-out-the-womb are the smartest ones, and the unquestioning belief in tech is anything but gullibility! Give me your money then!