"The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.”
Charles De Montesquieu.
Fully two thirds of people worldwide, are already facing water shortages of varying intensity, as we move towards the decade of water wars and severest fresh water scarcity. Our drought century isn’t starting in 2020 or beyond. It has already started since last century and will be felt dramatically by all this very decade. What goes on in the Horn of Africa is just a prelude to what we will all have to go through in the pursuit of our lives while trying to maintain the fecundity of the earth to provide for our food.
But our Public Policy isn’t addressing the challenges facing us in our present future, but rather occupies itself with solving the non-problems of the past, and thus pushing our lives on the brink and threatening our civilization and our very way of life.
And this is nowhere more evident now than in America. Because public policy is failing us, just when Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, Colorado, and even large parts of the Midwest are experiencing severe water shortages, gas fracking has arrived with the government’s blessing, to claim the little fresh water remaining unspoken for.
Further in the US laws of the land turn a blind eye to greenhouse gases released by fracking. And this comes at a time, when the EPA admits that fracking accounts for more than 40 percent of the nation’s overall methane emitted into the atmosphere.
Methane being a far stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, its emissions contribute mightily to the greenhouse global warming effect, which in turn causes more drought. And when the global warming effects are further augmented by the burning of all that “cheap” gas, we are going down the vicious cycle farther and faster. And repeating this cycle ad infinitum, will surely pose a grave threat to our civilization, now that we aren’t able to stop global warming to the prescribed two to three degrees Celsius. But we digress and we should return to the effects of fracking on water.
Constant droughts are a fact of Life for most.
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