Posted on 08/30/2004 7:04:51 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
It is a good thing the planet is warming because then we will have longer growing seasons and more arable land so that food in Canada, Russia and the United States can supply the rest of the world.
Access to oil and other energy reserves is going to seem like a tremendous luxury in comparison to water and food.
I believe there is even worse... In Bangladesh there is widespread arsenic poisoning, from natural arsenic which leached in these wells...
A lesson for those in the U.S. who think there's no crisis over depleting the Ogalla aquifer and others.
The sky is falling. A piece of it hit me on the head this morning on my way to work. I'm sure it's GWB's fault. He should do more to stop it.
The world of junk science just keeps getting funnier.
Where's the "Blame Bush," tag to this Reuters story.
Buy the top desalinization company now.....ION.
Sorry:
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!!
Good. Our crops will be expensive. We will trade them for plastic things made in China at a favorable trade balance.
Not so sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that calculating that more water is being taken out of the ground than returned is junk science?
If so, I don't quite comprehend how it fulfills the criteria. Obviously if you take more out than is being put back eventually there will be none left. If people rely on the water to grow food and there is suddenly no water left, they wont be able to grow enough food. The exact amounts and timing may be open to debate but the logic is flawless. Or, do you actually believe that Rambo can keep shooting without reloading?
The Chinese gov. will administer lead doses to control any Earth First type eco-terrorism that crops up.
What? As true as it might be what does that have to do with the story?
I wanted to ask what it had to do with the price of tea in China, but in fact, it has a lot to do with the price of tea in China. However I still can't figure out what it has to do with the story.
Too late, we are already here.
Water Crisis = Cause for evironmental activists of unsavory means.
I may be a bit dense here, but you are going to have to ellaborate a bit more on your thinking.
A real water crisis means that there is not enough water to go around. As opposed to a potential or fabricated water crisis.
If people aren't getting enough to eat or drink, then eveyone becomes an activist.
I just don't see how this has anything to do with radical environmental activists. It seems to me that these are reasonable scientists saying that if you empty the glass faster than it is refilled, eventually there won't be enough to drink.
The interesting spot to watch is China moving into the Russian held Mongolia and Siberia eventually as their water supply dwindles. It appears they are attempting to co-opt that territory by attrition since Chinese are moving into it.
I think that could be a major flashpoint in this century.
When the water supply gets to a crisis point, it'll all be America's fault, of course... especially if a Republican is in office.
Quote:The world of junk science just keeps getting funnier.
That's BS in this case. We have to use a well because no county water is available in the rural area where I live. The well has never gone dry on us except the year we landscaped the house with new shrubbery and had the water the new plants on a regular basis and bingo it went dry that year due to overuse.
Excellent point.
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