A Looming Crisis??
Doing my usual, searching the net for news, and I came across this headline:
Water scarcity: A looming crisis?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3747724.stm
What I want to focus on today is the table that is on this link...Comparing different countries usage of water to one another..
Go ahead, click on the link so we can get started...
Ok, done now??
Americans wonder why so many other countries view us with disdain and are constantly appalled by our lack of respect...Respect for what? You may ask...Oh, let me see.... Our lack of respect for the environment is what I am talking about today...
Yes, we have gotten better in some areas, logging industries are replanting forests, more and more towns are enforcing recycling, etc... But why do we still fight when it comes to tightening up our policies on hazardous waste output, things of that nature? Other countries have been trying to get this administration to come up to their standards for years, but yet we resist. Why? (For more information on this, look up this: Convention on Biological Diversity, an international conservation agreement signed by the 188 countries which are meeting in Brazil Convention on Biological Diversity, an international conservation agreement signed by the 188 countries which are meeting in Brazil, which the United States hasn't signed the treaty...)
In a simple analysis proven to us by the table listed in this link, our water usage far exceeds other countries...If I had time, I would look for our food consumption, waste output, things of that nature to compare, but I don't... maybe another day...
Is it so hard for us Americans to control our water usage? Our food consumption? Are we so stuck in the mentality of having to have things Right here and now, that we honestly can't think ahead to our children's future and our grand children's future?
I, will be the first to admit, I am guilty of such things....(especially when it comes to things of personal pleasure, controlling it, that is). It is time, that we Americans start taking into consideration how our actions, or lack of action, is going to affect those who come after us....If we don't.....
What kind of legacy will leave behind? What will be written about us? What irreversible damage will we cause?
Water scarcity: A looming crisis?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3747724.stm
What I want to focus on today is the table that is on this link...Comparing different countries usage of water to one another..
Go ahead, click on the link so we can get started...
Ok, done now??
Americans wonder why so many other countries view us with disdain and are constantly appalled by our lack of respect...Respect for what? You may ask...Oh, let me see.... Our lack of respect for the environment is what I am talking about today...
Yes, we have gotten better in some areas, logging industries are replanting forests, more and more towns are enforcing recycling, etc... But why do we still fight when it comes to tightening up our policies on hazardous waste output, things of that nature? Other countries have been trying to get this administration to come up to their standards for years, but yet we resist. Why? (For more information on this, look up this: Convention on Biological Diversity, an international conservation agreement signed by the 188 countries which are meeting in Brazil Convention on Biological Diversity, an international conservation agreement signed by the 188 countries which are meeting in Brazil, which the United States hasn't signed the treaty...)
In a simple analysis proven to us by the table listed in this link, our water usage far exceeds other countries...If I had time, I would look for our food consumption, waste output, things of that nature to compare, but I don't... maybe another day...
Is it so hard for us Americans to control our water usage? Our food consumption? Are we so stuck in the mentality of having to have things Right here and now, that we honestly can't think ahead to our children's future and our grand children's future?
I, will be the first to admit, I am guilty of such things....(especially when it comes to things of personal pleasure, controlling it, that is). It is time, that we Americans start taking into consideration how our actions, or lack of action, is going to affect those who come after us....If we don't.....
What kind of legacy will leave behind? What will be written about us? What irreversible damage will we cause?
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