Hello, and welcome to Overthink.
The podcast where we tell you which philosophical ideas don't hold water.
Or ones that do.
I feel like we usually do ones that do more.
Although we, you know, we can be critical here and there.
I'm Ellie Anderson.
And I'm David Peña-Guzman.
And today we are indeed talking about water.
We're in the middle of our series on the four elements.
And as I was thinking about what we might say about water.
One thing that I thought about as a place to start is the fact that water is often associated with scarcity,
at least these days.
And I think that's different from the three other elements that we're discussing,
fire, earth and air.
Certainly fire, we would want less of as a species.
Air, obviously,
there are a lot of changes that are happening to our air with climate change.
And I think the same is true of earth.
But it doesn't sound right to say that we wish there were more air or more.
earth.