I was kicking around the How Stuff Works website this morning and found these two factoids …
Agriculture accounts for 70 percent of the planet’s water use, and while you can reuse fresh water, there’s just not that much of it to go around. Using conventional (and unsustainable) agricultural methods, it takes nearly 400 gallons (1,500 liters) of water to grow just 2 pounds (1 kilogram) of wheat. Meat-eaters cause even more of a problem. To get that 2-pounds-worth of meat, it takes a whopping 4,000 gallons (15,000 liters) of water [source: FAO].
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests that by 2020, 75 to 250 million Africans may experience water shortages, and the continent’s agricultural output will decrease by 50 percent [source:BBC].
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IPCC is the same organization that has politicallly manipulated statistics to “prove” their point or agenda, one of which is polulation control or even population reduction. As a statistician myself, I wouldn’t believe anything they say. Man-caused “Global Warming” (the idea, not the weather problem) was man-made and falacious. We may actually be entering a new period of global cooling — and that is not man-caused either: \
http://www.icr.org/article/new-evidence-for-global-cooling/
The world needs to pay more attention to this! Civilizations have failed because their water supply failed
QUESTION…….IS CHINA ADVERSE TO DIVIDENDS……
Kevin, you are completely and totally wrong about Global Warming. But if all the evidence in the world out there won’t convince you — and there is plenty of it — I can’t convince you. There are plenty of blogs where your message will be “warmly” received. Perhaps you should go post there. Very sincerely, Sean