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RE: Why we're running out of water
This is the next "global warming" scam.
In 1952, Isaac Asimov wrote "The Martian Way" about a politician named Hilder who created an hysteria about Earth losing its precious water supply in order to rise to power.
There are one and a quarter quintillion tons of water on the planet.
One percent of that is 12.5 quadrillion tons of water.
There are 6.8 billion people on the planet. That's roughly 2 million tons of *useable* water per person. And water recycles.
We have virtually limitless energy for converting seawater to potable water coming from the sun; throw up some solar power satellites and use them to power desalinization plants. Or build some nuke plants to do so.
L.A., in a scrub desert, needs water? Haul some icebergs into the harbor(s).
I would guess that you are a progressive, Leal. What gives it away is your presumption that
"SL: That?s why we elect people. They should be pushing us. We?re on a collision course. This is a crisis."
Sorry, but that's not how things work in the U.S. The government is NOT our parent and has no business trying to steer us in the direction some wolf-criers want us to go.
There's a lot of water on Earth. Making it potable and transporting it to where it is needed to me doesn't sound like a crisis, it sounds like a business opportunity. If there really is a shortage anywhere, some clever guy is going to figure out how to make a buck off of desalinating it and getting it there... provided some idiot bureaucrat doesn't get in the way.
Man isn't the only thing that consumes water on this planet. Plants consume lots of water, animals consume lots of water. The fact that there are 6.8 billion humans rather than the equivalent in plant and animal life doesn't increase the consumption of water.
Unfortunately, 3 generations of kids have been indoctrinated in this nonsense rather than educated, so that they'll swallow this bunk without question: it's an article of faith among the Earth Worshippers (like Leal) that Man is bad, Man is harmful, Man is unnatural. And that religious doctrine has been imposed upon countless school children over recent decades.
This is not about ecology or conservation. This is another assault on capitalism. Her answer is an authoritarian socialist answer.
If the environment is so fragile, and the crisis is so imminent, why are people like Leal not proposing a crash space program, to move industries into orbit, to design and build tankers to haul petrochemicals in from Titan, to begin Terraforming operations on Mars and Venus? Sure it will take a lot of resources and time, but if the survival of Mankind, and perhaps life itself is at stake, isn't it the moral imperative to ensure that, if that evil monster Man does manage to destroy the environment, life can survive elsewhere?
No, this is not about big issues like the survival and advancement of Mankind. This is about combating capitalism and turning the world into an authoritarian socialist state, run, of course, by the Big Brains like Leal.
Leal, do Mankind a favor and shut up.
In 1952, Isaac Asimov wrote "The Martian Way" about a politician named Hilder who created an hysteria about Earth losing its precious water supply in order to rise to power.
There are one and a quarter quintillion tons of water on the planet.
One percent of that is 12.5 quadrillion tons of water.
There are 6.8 billion people on the planet. That's roughly 2 million tons of *useable* water per person. And water recycles.
We have virtually limitless energy for converting seawater to potable water coming from the sun; throw up some solar power satellites and use them to power desalinization plants. Or build some nuke plants to do so.
L.A., in a scrub desert, needs water? Haul some icebergs into the harbor(s).
I would guess that you are a progressive, Leal. What gives it away is your presumption that
"SL: That?s why we elect people. They should be pushing us. We?re on a collision course. This is a crisis."
Sorry, but that's not how things work in the U.S. The government is NOT our parent and has no business trying to steer us in the direction some wolf-criers want us to go.
There's a lot of water on Earth. Making it potable and transporting it to where it is needed to me doesn't sound like a crisis, it sounds like a business opportunity. If there really is a shortage anywhere, some clever guy is going to figure out how to make a buck off of desalinating it and getting it there... provided some idiot bureaucrat doesn't get in the way.
Man isn't the only thing that consumes water on this planet. Plants consume lots of water, animals consume lots of water. The fact that there are 6.8 billion humans rather than the equivalent in plant and animal life doesn't increase the consumption of water.
Unfortunately, 3 generations of kids have been indoctrinated in this nonsense rather than educated, so that they'll swallow this bunk without question: it's an article of faith among the Earth Worshippers (like Leal) that Man is bad, Man is harmful, Man is unnatural. And that religious doctrine has been imposed upon countless school children over recent decades.
This is not about ecology or conservation. This is another assault on capitalism. Her answer is an authoritarian socialist answer.
If the environment is so fragile, and the crisis is so imminent, why are people like Leal not proposing a crash space program, to move industries into orbit, to design and build tankers to haul petrochemicals in from Titan, to begin Terraforming operations on Mars and Venus? Sure it will take a lot of resources and time, but if the survival of Mankind, and perhaps life itself is at stake, isn't it the moral imperative to ensure that, if that evil monster Man does manage to destroy the environment, life can survive elsewhere?
No, this is not about big issues like the survival and advancement of Mankind. This is about combating capitalism and turning the world into an authoritarian socialist state, run, of course, by the Big Brains like Leal.
Leal, do Mankind a favor and shut up.
Posted by hiraghm@...
28th Oct 2010