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Telegraph UK:Water crisis to be biggest world risk

It's too bad we cant just melt all the icebergs and ice caps to free all that freshwater so people can use it. Perhaps if there was some way to heat the earth on a global scale. Perhaps if we could just warm the atmosphere a couple of degrees it would result in much more water in the aquifers of the cities instead of wasted up in the mountans as glaciers.

Oh, I suppose its just too much of a stretch to think that mankind is powerful enough to change the climate, even if its beneficial for millions of people.

( ...and on a side note, arent we reaching a point in our popular discourse where we are at maximum "greatest threat to mankind" saturation? When everything thats fit to print is the "greatest threat to mankind", doesnt that really mean that nothing is actually the "greatest threat to mankind", since the evidence provided by our lengthening life span and growing population show that desipte throwing everything from bird flu, black plague the Pontiac Aztec and Hanna Montana knock-offs at us, the biosphere is apparently pretty much powerless to stop us? And arent all these complaints about "water supply" just attempts by men to ban the practice of suburban lawns, which they are forced to spend valuable free time maintaining for no good purpose? The average suburban man can say "Honey I dont want to grow a lawn" and the wife will show them the stinkface, but if he says "oh my God!, the earth is running out of water, we need to put in a rock garden to be truly green and ecologically correct!" and she will smile at you in return. Who cares what the excuse is, if it gets you out of 3 hours of mindless labor on Saturday afternoon, why not? Its a scam I tell ya, a scam...)

Posted @ June 05, 2008 08:34 AM | Current Affairs

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