Al G Smith

Quite like this video (below) recently promoted via Yahoo!.

It makes some key points — most important of which may be that the typical American uses 100 gallons of water a day… No wonder T Boone Pickens, the Bush family and their ilk see water as the way to make their next billion …especially as the world’s oil dries up!

A typical Ethiopian uses maybe 2.5 gallons of water a day! It’s therefore obvious that there are a good many compromises yet to be made by the wealthy Western nations if we are truly to strive for global equality…

Such issues as water availability will become increasingly relevant as we enter an era of water rationing and rocketing water cost! Indeed if India is to become the home to the ‘typical’ of 30 year hence due to its burgeoning population… the needs of both China and India, let alone the impoverished African states such as Ethiopia, will continue to grow immensely… YET water suplies will at best remain static, and most likely diminish due to the weather changes already occurring…

No doubt we can expect plenty of protestations along the way… as those of us who are fortunate just now to be able to turn on taps and sprinklers with ‘gay abandon’, HAVE to become more responsible in our use of resources that are essential to life — such as H20! Now that WOULD be typical…

NOTE: Updated Jan 2012 — The original video subject of this blog entry seems to have been taken down — if I find a copy I will re-post, but meanwhile here is 19 minute documentary on the topic of water that ought to be viewed:

And here’s the first part (with subsequent parts linked thereafter via YouTube) of the acclaimed documentary “Flow” — hailed as the ’scariest movie’ in 2008 when it was aired at the famous Sundance festival! An eye opener if you didn’t ‘get the message’ already…

Or simply watch the whole movie in HD here… while it is available. A shocking indictment — and something that is happening as we speak, yet few people know about many of these issues, yet will soon be jumping up and down (if they are still able?)when their health, their pocket and their children’s future are impacted by what is happening to — Water!:

Here is a ‘third version’ of the popular “Did You Know” video created originally by Karl Fisch, modified by Scott McLeod, and again in 2008 (in this version) with additional contributions from Jeff Brenman. A video that in its previous incarnations had drawn many millions of views on YouTube already. So maybe it’s a little bit late to be posting it here but - if you haven’t seen it before - it is well worth a look…

It gives us all pause for thought - although in that pause it will be clear that the world will already have changed - particularly the ‘virtual world’!

There are those who believe that the World, as we know it, will End on December 21st, 2012 - as a great period foretold in the Mayan calendar of 5000 years ago comes to a close…

Some actually think this might be the time of the biblical Apocalypse.

Many other belief systems from other ancient cultures also talk of this era as some kind of ‘End Time’. But there are others who see this time as one that will mark a period of critical human, spiritual and emotional evolutionary development - one we need to be attuned to, and prepared for, in order fully to reap the potential personal and global benefits.

Amongst the many thought-provoking statistics in this video, however, is the suggestion that by 2013 a super computer that exceeds the computational power of the human brain will be built…

Could this just be a coincidental event that is forecast to occur so close to the supposed ‘end time’ for humanity?

We’ll soon see, won’t we…