This page will be dedicated to articles sent by; John Sims-Davis from Canada. John's specialiaty is the environment though knowing John you can look forward to some surprises!
Lets talk about water.... serious stuff Canada has 1/3rd of the world's fresh water, the ice caps are melting and sea levels rising and growing areas diminishing. everything arrives in a truck from California and Mexico, they are running out of water and looking at the great lakes. At the moment the lake states and Ontario & Quebec arew in agreement not to ship water south, but I believe that will happen eventually. People take water for granted, it comes out of a tap all clear, yes it has floride and some other chemicals in it, but it's clean and drinkable. Our water comes in a truck, we have a 1200 gallon cystern under the house, a lot of people use rain water with ultra violet filters. Our waist products also leave in a truck which we call " the Honney wagon our's does not smell because I recycle the dish washing and bath water through the toilets this saves on water as we use it twice we also water the garden with our washing machine water . The days of plentiful water are numbered even in Canada, water used to be free in the cities, now they are charging for it, we are experencing warmer and longer Summers, with the ice caps melting in the Artic and less rainfall there is a long term consequence. there are 2 drainage systems The Hudson bay system and the Canadian Shield system, with the Hudson Bay system water goes into Hudson Bay and the Artic, thus contributing to rising sea levels, With the Canadian shield system, water flows into the Great lakes. but there will come a time when those Great Lakes, Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario will start start getting smaller, levels will drop, and if the great lakes will be open to pumping to the Southern USA & Mexico that will speed things up, it's coming.
If climate change cannot be reversed, and I don't really see how it can be, because places like Indian and China and other countries are pumping out carbon dioxide with their industrialization, they want what we have, and why not. We are in deep shit for future generations we are killing the planet, and over populating it, there will come a time when we will not be able to feed everyone, there will be mass starvation on a scale we have not seen before wars will be faugh over water and food sustaining land. We already see this in Africa where some states are renting the arable land of poor countries to grow food exclusivley for that country. The English did that in Ireland 2 centuries ago using Ireland to grow food exclusivley for England whilst allowing only potatoes to be grown for the native Irish and when the potatoes failed, there was mass starvation and an exodus of the Irish population that has consequences to this day. At the height of the Irish famine England was exporting all kinds of food to feed it's own population and letting the Irish starve. It's disgusting and we are going to see this same scenario in Africa and other parts of the world.
The future looks very grim unless we can change the way we live, and lower our expectations. In truth we need to take a few steps back and go back to the time when horses were the main source of power. We in the West are living at the end of what will appear to be a golden era in future years when there were clean rivers and lakes, the sky was blue and the sun shined, and rain and snow fell and sustained the crops that fed the people. Change starts now by everyone examining their carbon foot print and seing how we can consume less and recyle more and grow as much of our own food as possible and support our local farmers by buying at local markets. It used to be before cheep gas and when the railways were the main source of moving goods , that every town had it's local industries, such as furniture, and dry goods. We have to get back to creating local economies serving local areas . The days of trucks arriving from distant places with everything that we need will be coming to an end, as carbon fuel prices rise making it uneconomical to ship goods thousands of miles. which is part of the problem. We need to get back to a more simpler way of life if there is to be a future for our children and their children.
Lets talk about water.... serious stuff Canada has 1/3rd of the world's fresh water, the ice caps are melting and sea levels rising and growing areas diminishing. everything arrives in a truck from California and Mexico, they are running out of water and looking at the great lakes. At the moment the lake states and Ontario & Quebec arew in agreement not to ship water south, but I believe that will happen eventually. People take water for granted, it comes out of a tap all clear, yes it has floride and some other chemicals in it, but it's clean and drinkable. Our water comes in a truck, we have a 1200 gallon cystern under the house, a lot of people use rain water with ultra violet filters. Our waist products also leave in a truck which we call " the Honney wagon our's does not smell because I recycle the dish washing and bath water through the toilets this saves on water as we use it twice we also water the garden with our washing machine water . The days of plentiful water are numbered even in Canada, water used to be free in the cities, now they are charging for it, we are experencing warmer and longer Summers, with the ice caps melting in the Artic and less rainfall there is a long term consequence. there are 2 drainage systems The Hudson bay system and the Canadian Shield system, with the Hudson Bay system water goes into Hudson Bay and the Artic, thus contributing to rising sea levels, With the Canadian shield system, water flows into the Great lakes. but there will come a time when those Great Lakes, Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario will start start getting smaller, levels will drop, and if the great lakes will be open to pumping to the Southern USA & Mexico that will speed things up, it's coming.
If climate change cannot be reversed, and I don't really see how it can be, because places like Indian and China and other countries are pumping out carbon dioxide with their industrialization, they want what we have, and why not. We are in deep shit for future generations we are killing the planet, and over populating it, there will come a time when we will not be able to feed everyone, there will be mass starvation on a scale we have not seen before wars will be faugh over water and food sustaining land. We already see this in Africa where some states are renting the arable land of poor countries to grow food exclusivley for that country. The English did that in Ireland 2 centuries ago using Ireland to grow food exclusivley for England whilst allowing only potatoes to be grown for the native Irish and when the potatoes failed, there was mass starvation and an exodus of the Irish population that has consequences to this day. At the height of the Irish famine England was exporting all kinds of food to feed it's own population and letting the Irish starve. It's disgusting and we are going to see this same scenario in Africa and other parts of the world.
The future looks very grim unless we can change the way we live, and lower our expectations. In truth we need to take a few steps back and go back to the time when horses were the main source of power. We in the West are living at the end of what will appear to be a golden era in future years when there were clean rivers and lakes, the sky was blue and the sun shined, and rain and snow fell and sustained the crops that fed the people. Change starts now by everyone examining their carbon foot print and seing how we can consume less and recyle more and grow as much of our own food as possible and support our local farmers by buying at local markets. It used to be before cheep gas and when the railways were the main source of moving goods , that every town had it's local industries, such as furniture, and dry goods. We have to get back to creating local economies serving local areas . The days of trucks arriving from distant places with everything that we need will be coming to an end, as carbon fuel prices rise making it uneconomical to ship goods thousands of miles. which is part of the problem. We need to get back to a more simpler way of life if there is to be a future for our children and their children.
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