different dreams he said
as he wandered into the night
different dreams
as if asleep inside a tree
different
like an axe chopping the waves in two
different
like Hannibal changing course and heading for Largs
different dreams cannot change
the reality that life is but a dream
reality cannot change
the dream that we are but nomads
on a desert floor
like the salt removed from the sea
we dream of different paths
not knowing we have already arrived
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
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Monday, 2 May 2016
A Few Quotes on Global Water Crisis from New Scientist Magazine
23 April 2016, from Arjen Hoekstra, Professor of Water Management, Twente
Agriculture is the largest water consumer.
Meat is in a league of its own... how many animal products you eat has a big impact on your personal water footprint.
The vast majority (of water we use) relates to the products we consumer.
The real solution lies in agriculture... About one-third relates to the production of feed for the animals we consume.
We need to go to [become] a world where eating less meat is seen as a logical way to reduce the pressure on the environment. This is really the elephant in the room. Nobody's talking a
bout it.
Another way to make sure that water is not being overexploited or polluted is to put its real value into the price of products... this can only be done by taxing.
Three-quarters of the UK's water consumption is actually outside its borders. And about half of that usage is not sustainable.
It doesn't make sense that we [Northern Europe] produce so little of our own food.
It [imported food from poor countries] is not really cheap; it is at the expense of the people over there, their land and their water. And in the long run, our own food supply is at risk. We need to change the rules of the market by discriminating in favour of sustainable production.
Nearly three-quarters of the planet is covered in it [water].
But just one per cent of that is fresh water available for our use.
Agriculture is the largest water consumer.
Meat is in a league of its own... how many animal products you eat has a big impact on your personal water footprint.
The vast majority (of water we use) relates to the products we consumer.
The real solution lies in agriculture... About one-third relates to the production of feed for the animals we consume.
We need to go to [become] a world where eating less meat is seen as a logical way to reduce the pressure on the environment. This is really the elephant in the room. Nobody's talking a
bout it.
Another way to make sure that water is not being overexploited or polluted is to put its real value into the price of products... this can only be done by taxing.
Three-quarters of the UK's water consumption is actually outside its borders. And about half of that usage is not sustainable.
It doesn't make sense that we [Northern Europe] produce so little of our own food.
It [imported food from poor countries] is not really cheap; it is at the expense of the people over there, their land and their water. And in the long run, our own food supply is at risk. We need to change the rules of the market by discriminating in favour of sustainable production.
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