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

[Brendan]

There's all of what five? on the list, the Killing Joke appreciation gene
is obviously heavily correlated with maleness.


> I'd like to be in charge of the women. Please.

>

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

>> {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:*

>> {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}

>> 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

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>>

>>

>> 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 wrote:

>>

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

>> problems.

>>

>>

>>

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>> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of GREG SLAWSON

>> 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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