Unicef's Tap Project is nearing it's end... from March 16th to 22nd donating $1 at a participating restaurant for tap water you'd normally get for free will help to provide a child in an area of the world without clean water safe water to drink for 40 days. We take clean water for granted and act like it's free and we have a right to it, but that's not really the case.
It takes 5xs as much water to produce one bottle of water. In the First World countries we get freaky about our tap water, with bottled "pure, natural spring" water, or filtering systems. But around the world, 50% of disease is spread through water, and Third World nations are the ones who suffer. A child dies every 15 seconds a day due to thirst related causes.
It opened my eyes when I was in New Zealand, a relatively wealthy country, and some houses, the majority of houses, ran off tank water because fresh water would dry up or wasn't close and accessible. Major conservation had to happen in the household to avoid running a tank dry, because ordering a new tank to come in cost alot of money. No more than two minute showers, and baths are a luxury.
Within ten years the world will forget about oil. Basic needs such as food and water will be what the world's fighting for. Britain is already concentrating on increasing their military power for such an event as a possible world war over basic resources, due to water shortages because of waste and pollution and crop shortages from the effects of global warming. In India, one of the world's largest populations next to China, it is estimated 60% of the population will go hungry from crop shortages.
I think about it before bed and I can't sleep, because this is the world we will inherit. This will be my generation's "Great War". And too many people are too apathetic. I want to make a difference somehow... make sure you donate some money to Unicef's project. Nothing in this world is free.
NIHLY
It takes 5xs as much water to produce one bottle of water. In the First World countries we get freaky about our tap water, with bottled "pure, natural spring" water, or filtering systems. But around the world, 50% of disease is spread through water, and Third World nations are the ones who suffer. A child dies every 15 seconds a day due to thirst related causes.
It opened my eyes when I was in New Zealand, a relatively wealthy country, and some houses, the majority of houses, ran off tank water because fresh water would dry up or wasn't close and accessible. Major conservation had to happen in the household to avoid running a tank dry, because ordering a new tank to come in cost alot of money. No more than two minute showers, and baths are a luxury.
Within ten years the world will forget about oil. Basic needs such as food and water will be what the world's fighting for. Britain is already concentrating on increasing their military power for such an event as a possible world war over basic resources, due to water shortages because of waste and pollution and crop shortages from the effects of global warming. In India, one of the world's largest populations next to China, it is estimated 60% of the population will go hungry from crop shortages.
I think about it before bed and I can't sleep, because this is the world we will inherit. This will be my generation's "Great War". And too many people are too apathetic. I want to make a difference somehow... make sure you donate some money to Unicef's project. Nothing in this world is free.
NIHLY
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Food is basically in surplus (if the poor cannot afford it that is another matter entirely although no less distressing for them) but there is enough food.
Oil will run out... but gah... I would rather see it stay at a high price so we innovate ourselves off of it's ridiculous addiction to waste and environmental damage along with giving hundreds of billions of dollars to those who hate us.
sigh... always gonna be something.
I kid. You are good folk. I <3 you.