A World Without Water 8/8

Every day 300,000 children die due to lack of water and poor sanitation. Billions of people do not have access to safe water. Environmental change threatens to make this situation worse but a more immediate danger is emerging. Control of the world's water is falling into the hands of the rich and water may soon take the place of oil as the world's most trade able - and coveted - commodity - not a basic human right. In a future when market forces set the price of a glass of water, will many more people will be left too poor to drink?

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• water
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• future
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• warming
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[PktMma]

@basspig Ok I'll ask you again, they have no capitalism in Detroit?

[basspig]

@PktMma Hardly. A world without Capitalism is a world without access to resources. Capitalism, the freedom to apply man's mind to harness nature, is what makes resource availability, like running water, possible.

[PktMma]

@basspig But totally irrelevant.

[basspig]

@PktMma It wasn't. It's merely a clear illustration of how ideas manifest in physical form. Modern Age vs. Dark Age.

[PktMma]

@basspig Where was Korea mentioned in the documentary? A documentary about the PRIVATIZATION of water. You know, like making water a privately owned commodity to be bought and sold on the FREE MARKET.

[basspig]

@PktMma Do you have difficulty understanding what a comparison is? Look at a nighttime aerial map of the Korean peninsula and note the difference between north and south Korea. It's true for any nation, but that satellite photo is world-famous for the message it imparts: the physical manifestation of man's philosophical ideas. One, freedom, the other, slavery. Detroit is becoming like a 3rd world country. No property rights, no investment. It's that simple.

[PktMma]

@basspig Korea? Is Detroit in Korea? 

[basspig]

@PktMma Nobody has property rights in these 3rd world 'nations', which is the core problem here. It's not corporate greed--it's government dictatorship that caused this.

There can be no clearer picture of the difference between Capitalism and this kind of existence than a night aerial photo of the Koreas. North Korea is in darkness, while South Korea sparkles like a Christmas tree. The difference is Capitalism. If you pay property taxes, you don't have property rights. Don't pay. C what happens.

[PktMma]

@basspig Are you stupid or just trolling? They have no property rights yet water is a traded commodity? I dunno where you get this shit from. How about the family from Detroit. They have no property rights in Detroit? It's pretty appalling how conservative trolls always seem to draw the conclusion that in order to fix a problem we need more of what caused it in the first place.

[basspig]

Symptoms... people keep trying to treat symptoms. How about treating the CAUSE of poverty instead? The tragedy is not that it costs $450 to hook into the water supply... it's that people are earning only $600/year in some nations. To fix that, you have to allow stable property rights, so business can invest and thrive, and thus create jobs. These third world sh*tholes do not have property rights, which is why they have such obscene poverty.