Will water become more valuable than oil?

Yes

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by Raymond Alexander Kukkee

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Will water become more valuable than oil?
Just a Sip

This debate is absurdly late for civilized people.
Water is already more valuable than oil. Something new? No. It has been more valuable since the dawn of civilization.
Oil can be priced at a million dollars per barrel but compared to water and life itself, oil is worthless.

Oil is handy stuff. Your Hummer H3 can use oil, as can your Ford or Cadillac, your Rolls-Royce or your kid's school bus. Heat your home with it. Make plastic. Endless ways to use it, even just burn it'.
It is handy stuff, no doubt about that.

Your personal physical requirements, however, are a completely different matter. No matter how much oil you have, you will die within 7 days without water; sooner in many instances.

Cut to the chase. Recognize and tell the Truth. Remove the blinders from the rich, the powerful, Big Oil, and Bigger Money. Chief Executive Officers everywhere need to answer this question:
"How many days would YOU like to survive, people?"

Human beings cannot drink oil, yet they greedily place a 'dollar' value upon that commodity because of the perception that 'Commerce' actually means something. Oil is a means to the end, the end' is money, he who has the most money and the most toys wins' - truer words have never been spoken for the rich, for to them, greed is more important than life itself.

Unless they happen to find themselves thirsty -and there IS no water to drink.

Water is essential to all life forms; yet humanity disregards the fact that world supplies of potable water, -meaning the water that is drinkable are rapidly diminishing world-wide because of pollutants created by our 'civilization'.

The so-called 'Greenhouse' effect, the heating of the Earth itself, is a fact that many people would 'prefer not to believe' because they might have to change their lifestyle to one that is just a little less luxurious. The hotter the globe becomes, the more difficult it becomes to maintain adequate potable water supplies to world populations. Climate change. A different' debate?

The Greenhouse effect is not merely an 'inconvenient truth' as some call it. The globe is heating up, evidence is everywhere with ancient glaciers disappearing and rivers drying up; it does not matter whether you personally believe it or NOT.

Rich civilization is in denial'. A perfect euphemism for selective blindness'.
After all, if one prefers not to change, and chooses not to see the problem, it must not exist'.

Put blame aside for the moment, it is too inconvenient to even think about it. Truth hurts. Facts and statistics are unreasonable things for a hedonistic money-oriented society to deal with.

After the fact, and when, not if, there is a worldwide and tragic shortage of potable water, does it really matter that anyone was right or wrong or what the cause was whether it be man made or natural? "It's convenient to use that as an excuse. Let's deal with it when we get there."

Too late. We are there.
People die every day for lack of potable water. They don't need Hummers, iced cappuccino or oil at ANY price. What they did need to prevent them from dying was a drink of WATER.
Just a sip. Priceless.

Shortages of potable water already exist.
Not at "some time in the future" when our rich civilization will no longer exist, and long after the supplies of OIL have run out -but NOW.

In the deserts of the world there are huge tracts of land that have absolutely no water.
Virtually NO rainfall all year. The deserts are expanding. Temperate lands everywhere are becoming drier. Let us totally ignore the requirement of water for the production of food.
Third world countries already live in the harsh daily reality of inadequate clean drinking water.

Meantime, living in the bliss of informed, but in total ignorance of fact and reality,- clean, fresh, valuable water is flushed down badly designed plumbing, poured onto the grass so that it can be 'green', and polluted with salt and dirt from the road in car washes everywhere. After all, our Hummers and Cadillacs must be shiny. It is important that expensive vehicles be shiny. Status, wealth.

Water is wasted at ever-increasing, obscene rates and polluted even faster. Pour chemicals on to the same grass while you're at it. Pollute the water, no mind, the grass needs to be 'green'. Live for today. Be Happy. For tomorrow you shall thirst.

Industry, worldwide, continues to use clean surface water to 'make money' in the endless pursuit of greed and commerce - -and returns the water unfit for any use to the environment. An endless argument, justification, denial of fact and responsibility to society.
Only in the end shall we learn.

Paradoxically, water is used to process oil. Use water-that is ultimately priceless, and pollute it-to produce oil worth absolutely nothing when you are dying of thirst.

Yes, even to the richest of the rich one day water will become more valuable than oil

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