"Romeo Rondeau" wrote in message
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"playon" wrote in message
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The future control and privatization of the world's water supplies by
large corporations is a given, and is very scary scenario. Wars are
definietly going to be fought over this.

I agree, it's no different from oil.


But the wars will all be fought out over oil way before we have to worry
about water, unless one wants to actually drink potable water without
harmful pollutants. The world will never get to a greater war than one of
the remaining supplies of oil, and I spoke quite succinctly to this during
the "Peak Oil" thread. Once a commodity becomes scarce, such as oil, it no
longer is a commodity, and, as Bush and the Neo-Cons have made deep inroads
towards, one who controls the oil controls everything. It's a simple
concept that was presented in DUNE about controlling the Spice that allowed
inter-stellar travel. I'm sure the concept has been around for a century,
but I don't have the references. However, I'm just as certain that the Bush
administration is trying to be in a position to control the amount of oil
they can while they can. In other words, we're taking control of OUR oil
under THEIR sand.

And our greatest competitor for the oil will be China, who, via North Korea,
apparently isn't adverse to selling nuclear technology in the effort to
diffuse the current situation while becoming mobilized to protect their own
interest in oil. Let's face it, the possibility of global warming is far
off compared to the ability of China to force itself into the modern world
without oil to power their industry. In other words, anyone worried about
global warming is being an optimist in terms of actually surviving before
global warming becomes another extinction event. Sans a methane sulfate
explosion into the atmosphere, raising temperatures from 1 degree C to maybe
20 degrees C depending on the extent of the blow.

****, we could figure it all out and still have the methane sulfate
explosion that would kill off virtually all life within 100 years. Perhaps
we better look at that rather than worry about China or any other country
being as stupid as the USA is right now. Perhaps Bush and his cohorts are
right. But my bet is that only by ignoring the science of the FACT of
global warming, regardless of what is causing it, we WILL be caught with our
pants down. Hell, we're already close to being close to being caught with
our pants down and we haven't even gotten into the real reason GW and his
cadre have begun this process.

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Roger W. Norman
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