How to avoid water wars
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Posted on September 17, 2006
Filed Under Justice, Deep ecology, Ecological overshoot, Ecological hope, Consumer culture, Population growth, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality, Ecology of war and peace
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Among the resources that we humans are seriously depleting is water. Population stresses, overuse and waste in rich developed countries, contamination, and growing areas of drought are exacerbating a problem already critical in some parts of the world. Some Middle East experts will tell you that much of the tension in the Middle East is about access to water, including the recent war in Lebanon (this link is to an article in 2002 that predicts such a war, while this link puts this summer’s war in that context.).
So this article from CommonDreams has been in my email queue for a while now and I just opened it. It’s very good and offers important suggestions towards avoiding future water wars.
We here in the US of A will have to stop being so foolish about our water use. It is among the many precious gifts of the earth for which we seem to have little respect. We have our own water conflicts out west, and they will likely get nastier if we continue to insist that we should be able to live and develop anywhere we please and that the water should simply be brought to us from somewhere else. That approach offers the promise of violent conflict.
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