[kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

[Brendan]

Well done, you'll be assistant overseer responsible for population culling
on Killing Joke island. You can start with the filthy capitalists! (Except
me...special case).


> You win; I concede.

>

> Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:        v\:*

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> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                I had an interesting

> chat with a double PhD geologist while I was fixing his PC last year, he

> agreed with me that overpopulation is the single biggest environmental

> problem, (see he deserves those degrees! ;) he said he thinks the planet

> is capable of sustaining half to a billion people. Not really sure if he

> knew what he was on about, he worked in oil prospecting I think.

>

>   Of course there’s a difference between what is capable and what is

> optimal. The planet might well be able to support 10 billion

but what’s

> the point? I would tend to go along with what he said. What is anyone

> doing about overpopulation? From what I know affluence is the cure for

> that. Cramps the style to have to always clean up baby sick from the

> floor of the SUV



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>   From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]

> On Behalf Of sade1

> Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2008 5:51 p.m.

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

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>     "10 percent of the Land..[are] the priviledged Few

>

>                             ..[who] have..[who] own..and hold," ~~

> ageofgreed

>

>

>

>        I've read that there is enough food, water, assets and wealth on

> planet Earth for all

>

>     to live and live comfortably a great quality of life - if the food,

> water, wealth, and assets

>

>     were much more evenly distributed among the inhabitants.

>

>        *I* would never say "go communist" and forcibly expropriate,

> nationalise, and/or

>

>     distribute everything, but instead allowed each other a fair

> opportunity at honestly

>

>     working for it, we could all live, and live safely and awesomely. And

> it doesn't take

>

>     much, either.

>

> Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

>

>       Overpopulation is a contributing factor to a lot of these kind of

> problems.

>

>

>

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> Sent: Sunday, 23 March 2008 7:52 a.m.

> To: gathering

> Subject: [kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

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>     Subject: [grunder] Water will be source of war unless world acts now,

> warns minister

> From: grunder at furrg.montclair.edu

> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:25:51 -0500

> To: grunder at furrg.montclair.edu

>

>     Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns minister

> By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent

> Saturday, 22 March 2008

>

>       The world faces a future of 'water wars', unless action is taken to

> prevent international water shortages and sanitation issues

> escalating into conflicts, according to Gareth Thomas, the

> International Development minister.

>

> The minister's warning came as a coalition of 27 international charities

> marked World Water Day, by writing to Gordon Brown demanding action to

> give fresh water to 1.1 billion people with poor supplies. 'If we do not

> act, the reality is that water supplies may become the subject of

> international conflict in the years ahead,' said Mr Thomas. 'We need to

> invest now to prevent us having to pay that price in the future.'

> His department warned that two-thirds of the world's population will live

> in water-stressed countries by 2025. The stark prediction comes after the

> Prime Minister said in his national security strategy that pressure on

> water was one of the factors that could help countries 'tip into

> instability, state failure or conflict'.

> The coalition of charities has appealed for a global effort to bring

> running water to the developing world and supply sanitation to a further

> 2.6 billion people. It said international action was needed to prevent

> competition for water destabilising communities and escalating into

> conflicts.

> In their letter, the campaigners say: 'Tackling the water and sanitation

> crisis is essential if the 'Millennium Development Goal Call to Action' is

> to be a success, otherwise progress on health, education and environmental

> sustainability will be undermined. Each year 443 million school days are

> lost globally to diarrhoea and 1.8 million children die unnecessarily from

> these diseases.

> 'Investing in sanitation and water brings the greatest public health gains

> of any single development intervention and delivers huge economic returns.

> The G8 would do well to heed the development history of east Asian

> countries that put tackling these issues at the forefront of their

> national development efforts.'

> Ministers agree the world needs to take urgent action to avoid missing

> Millennium Development Goals to halve the proportion of people without

> access to safe drinking water by 2015. That target should be met, although

> progress has been limited in sub-Saharan Africa.

> Mr Brown's security strategy said 'rising temperatures together with

> extreme weather will increase pressures on water supplies'. It went on: 'A

> growing and increasingly urbanised global population will increase demand

> for food and water, at the same time as climate change and other trends

> put greater pressure on their supply.

> 'Already well over 1 billion people suffer from water shortages and 30

> countries get more than a third of their water from outside their borders.

> With climate change, those figures are likely to grow, increasing the

> possibility of disputes.'

> Charlie Kronick, senior climate adviser at Greenpeace, said the whole of

> sub-Saharan Africa, most of south Asia and western South America were at

> risk of water shortages if global warming continues.

> 'There is no doubt that climate change is going to be potentially the

> biggest source of water stress,' he said. 'If average global temperatures

> go more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels you are looking at 2

> to 3 billion people potentially suffering water shortages. It's a pretty

> serious business.'

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