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Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - Oh_hunnihunni - 28-06-2023
Think about this -
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/300915561/humans-have-used-enough-groundwater-to-shift-earths-tilt
Especially interesting for those who are still convinced humanity has not terraformed this planet - and contributed massively in the process to Climate Change...
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - Lilith7 - 28-06-2023
Which merely serves to confirm once again that we humans really are feckin idiots - in spades!
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - zqwerty - 28-06-2023
Yes but it's not so much individuals in and of themselves it's the corporations that are most damaging plus far too many individual humans all consuming etc.
As has been said before - over population.
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - Oh_hunnihunni - 28-06-2023
Greed? And a widespread preference for ill discipline...
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - Lilith7 - 28-06-2023
Nestle makes a habit of taking water from various places.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/nestle-pays-200-a-year-to-bottle-water-near-flint-where-water-is-undrinkable
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottles
https://www.icirnigeria.org/how-nestle-nigeria-contaminates-water-supply-of-its-host-community-in-abuja/
And they're not alone.
https://www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Article/2018/09/20/Pakistan-water-crisis-Nestle-PepsiCo-and-Coca-Cola-amongst-companies-summoned-for-water-usage
How they're able to get away with it is bad enough; contemplating that there are people in our world who are capable of such utter greed is sickening.
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - alpha111 - 28-06-2023
Wait until the water stored from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is poured into the Pacific Ocean. We have to back China on its concerns.
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - Oh_hunnihunni - 29-06-2023
I think the Pacific is big enough to water that lot down to safe levels myself. However, I remain staunchly anti nuke.
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - R2x1 - 29-06-2023
(29-06-2023, 09:31 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I think the Pacific is big enough to water that lot down to safe levels myself. However, I remain staunchly anti nuke.
It (Pacific) sure is big, and growing every day apparently. Who built the Ocean, and who approved it? (I'm fairly sure there's lawyers just itching to act for aggrieved claimants.)
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - Oh_hunnihunni - 29-06-2023
I remember flying over it, at night, Auckland to San Francisco, in a plane with only four passengers besides me, and thinking if we went down we'd be too far from land to expect help. So I read my book instead of thinking.
I am not a good flyer.
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - nzoomed - 29-06-2023
Maybe our bottled water being shipped to China is also putting the earth off balance?
RE: Next time you swig from that bottle of spring water... - Wainuiguy - 29-06-2023
(28-06-2023, 09:19 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Think about this -
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/300915561/humans-have-used-enough-groundwater-to-shift-earths-tilt
Especially interesting for those who are still convinced humanity has not terraformed this planet - and contributed massively in the process to Climate Change...
Personally I drink water from the tap.
One thing though - much of the water from aquifers makes its way out anyway. And .24 inches of sea level rise and 2 feet of polar shift? Not exactly big movement.