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know better. Just as we have changed the face of the earth, the earth is always changing its own face. It's up to us to recognize those changes and adapt to them to avoid a major water shortage, and to be otherwise safe from the earth's unyielding progress.

There are plenty of human-friendly places left to live on the earth. We don't have to live in the places that will kill us. All those field animals sure seem to find places for themselves. I'm sure we can, too. But unlike them, we have to have the sense to avoid the " busy roadways" that are developing on the earth.

Furthermore, there are regions of the planet's oceans that are yet to be investigated, where no one has gone before, right here on this very Earth! Those places haven't even begun to be tapped for water, as far as I've heard. Hundreds of years ago, those were dangerous and unaccessible places for humans to venture. But today we have the means to create the technology, however costly, to go there and get some water if we really have to, and transport it to wherever we need to. You can't convince me that we can step foot on the moon, but we can't hoover over our own oceans to get what we need. We can make it drinkable.

Keep in mind that we currently have food shortages in several places, too. But we have many powerful global organizations, government and non-government, that are on the ball as we speak, trying to do whatever they can to ensure that people aren't deprived of the basic human right to eat. No doubt, they will protect our rights to drinking water, as well.

Yes, people are currently struggling with both food and water in some places right now, but it is clearly the will of thousands of generous and humane people to intercept such problems. They haven't fully succeeded yet, but certainly their efforts can contribute to the prevention of any major, large scale, global shortages of the very basics. I don't think we need to panic, at least not just yet.

This, of course, doesn't release us from our obligation to clean up our act. This is comparable to a doctor's diagnosis of your colon; "Joe, Sue, relax. I've found no cancer in your colon, but you still need to work on making some changes in your lifestyle and diet."

It's like the earth is responding to a crisis right now. We can only hope that this population explosion, as well as the deep impact made by industry, will cease before the earth runs out crisis intervention ideas for us. While we're generally okay now, we still need to get the message and take heed. I always knew that the current lifestyle among people of developed nations would turn out to be just a phase in history. It's time to get on to the next chapter in history, now. I think we'll like the changes once we make them. If we had been drinking all the water we've wasted this past century, we'd be a lot healthier. Water is is a resource worthy of appreciation. Why else would anyone ask whether wars might erupt over it; I can certainly understand their concern.

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