While the media and some politicians
prattle on and on about climate change and how it's in everyone's
interest to do something about it, no one seems to be addressing a
problem that becomes more critical with each passing day and which
will unhinge America and other nations in the near term.
While global warming is something the
media likes to talk and talk about, and while Obama is pressing for
his so-called 'carbon tax' (which is currently stalled in the Senate), there
are bigger problems brewing... I'm talking about potable water
and the lack of it on planet earth. Strangely enough, for a planet that is
covered by some much of the wet stuff, it's sad to state that only about 1% is actually
drinkable. And, of that portion, much of that small amount is tied up as ice on both
poles! That leaves precious little for the some 7 billion souls now
inhabiting mother earth to drink each day!
Here in America, the fresh water is already
becoming scarce in some states. Of even more concern are the dropping
water tables across the mid section of the country. Reservoirs that
experts say will take something like ten thousand years to refill,
assuming we all stopped using it today. Our government is now
projecting that at least 36 states will soon face severe water shortages
because of a combination of rising temperatures, drought, population
growth, urban sprawl, waste and excess.
Other continents, like
Australia are even now in the midst of a critical shortage of water
as wildfires burn up the parched land. (Sadly, Australia's longest
river system, the Murray-Darling, which drains a basin the size of
France and Spain combined, no longer carries enough water to carve
its own path to the sea and must be dredged on a 24/7 basis). You
think that will end well these folks? In fact, many of the world's rivers,
including the Colorado in America, China's Yellow river and the
Tagus, which flows through Spain and Portugal, are suffering a
similar plight as increasingly thirsty hordes drain them faster than
they can be refilled by rainfall. The truth of the matter is that there are just
too many people, too many industries and animals to supply all their
needs even today. If these trends continue, experts predict that shortages could become
critical in just another decade or so....
Imagine a scenario where over a billion people are suddenly forced to move because they are slowly dying of thirst! Imagine, too, the
effect on our world stability as they cross foreign borders in a tidal wave
of wild desperation! It won't be a pretty sight and when it does begin to
happen it will happen overnight. And yet, what is being done about
this pending nightmare? Nothing. The media and the president would
rather spend their time talking about global warming and how the CO2
might climb above 400 part per million! Heaven forbid!
