Tech | May 05, 2012 | 11 comments

Last Call At The Oasis; The global water crisis

source: http://water-is-life.blogspot.com/2012/05/last-call-at-oasis-new-movie.html?spref=tw

JanforGore
A new movie highlighting the importance of water to our lives and the global crisis we face with ways to address it. It is good to see movies like this being made especially regarding water. We use too much of it (particularly regarding agriculture and energy,) we take it too much for granted and our misconceptions about its availability are being challenged. We are using much more than we can replenish and that exacerbates physical scarcity and non physical scarcity in the form of pollution that makes water unsuitable and unhealthy for human use.

In this age of climate change as well (when we are now seeing the human affect on the hydrologic cycle in connection with extreme weather events such as droughts and floods becoming more frequent and severe) we see moral will colliding with the forces of greed taking advantage of our apathy. We can no longer be secure in thinking we will never be without it and thinking it is a far away obscure crisis. It is here, it is now, and it is about all of us.
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  • MSII
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      MSII  

    • ...and as the water situation in the world worsens the greedy scum use fracking here endangering our water supply, all to line their already bulging pockets with more quick easy money at the expense of our health and safety! More greed, more mindless "privatization" from the right-wing-corporate-fascist scum here and throughout the world.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • MSII:

      Yes, that is also part of the problem. We cannot afford this in a water stressed world. When you see areas of drought giving water to these fracking companies over farmers, then you know the corporations have too much damn power.

    • 1 year ago
  • MSII
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • The Colorado River is the seventh largest river in the U.S. But through overuse of water through irrigation, energy, diversion and expansion of population, it no longer runs to the Gulf of Mexico. Climate change is also having an impact on this region with less snowpack. The problem of using more than we can replenish is one being experienced not only here but globally. Becoming aware of this and working to conserve this resource through better agricultural management, sources of energy that are not water intensive as oil, coal and nuclear are and working to conserve are all ways we can begin to address a problem that if left unchecked will leave a large swath of this country in dire need of water. Just ask Texas.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
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  • MSII
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  • IceKat
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • IceKat:

      You should try to not embarrass yourself about issues you know nothing about just because you carry a grudge here. Your "far left extremist" broken record remarks give you away. This is not political, this is moral and it is real. Go put your head back in the sand.

    • 1 year ago
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