@Allamanda Sorry, but each to his/her own opinion. We have circled this area before but as long as we keep looking for others to 'fix' the problems we have caused we will continually prove Thomas Malthus right. Often, it is said, an addict has to hit bottom before they can recover. Right now, with the pandemic, we are hitting bottom so it is time to change our ways. As a big follower of the 'Trolley Problem' morality I would suggest by helping some today we will face the same problem albeit on a much larger scale tomorrow. I had a couple of visitors in my back yard this afternoon (deer). This year there have been a lot more young deer on the scene. The deer have gotten especially desperate for food and often put themselves in harms way. There are no predators here and culling is restricted (except by cars) so they do what all, unthinking, life do and, in the end, more are suffering and dying of starvation.

@Allamanda I agree but will it do it fast enough and, more importantly, will people be doing it to those ends? Before any real progress can be made in this direction people have to be informed and understand how critical this issue is to the survival and well being of the future generations. Do we want to continue trying to survive from one pandemic and war to another or take matters more peacefully in our own hands?!

@Allamanda In my mind, no. But, again, we have talked about communication not being an exact science. Maybe if I had spent some time to reassess my responses perhaps they would be worded differently but the basic thought, to me, is still there.

@Allamanda Chlorine and copper. This method might do away with the copper, but there's still the chlorine to dispose of.

@Allamanda The chlorine is in the salt water to begin with, that's what desalinization does, removes the salt.

@Allamanda You don't get salt, you get briny water. Maybe this method somehow avoids that problem, I don't know. Look it up, it's a quietly ignored problem with current desalinization plants, they just quietly dump the brine back in the ocean where it very definitely is harmful to the local ecology.