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Our population grows
We are all co-captains of the good ship Earth the condition in which she arrives in decades to come wherever that might be will be the direct result of all the decisions we all take now day by day Our population grows 7 billion now 10 billion in 2050 water will need to be found for an extra 3 billion people in 34 years time - 15% more than China & India today Our water hungry middle class grows doubling every 15 years 1.4b in 2000 2.5b in 2015 5b in 2030? The modern lifestyle is itself water hungry growing beef taking 16 times as much water asgrowing corn the generation of power uses water 4 litres of water are taken to make each litre of fuel fracking...
Read MoreCloser to midnight
“Looks like it’s getting closer to midnight on 31st December and not sure we’ve got a viable plan.” The climate change traffic lights may have gone green in Paris & while all around engines might be revving - few have yet to drop the clutch Are we mentally strapped by fear of financial meltdown? will we be emancipated by the shift of currencies based on simple gold rather than hopes & promises compounded Perhaps we are numbed by the precipitous drop in the price of oil - those gallons gushing into the sky as CO2 All those sheds all those paddocks round the world all those ‘Charlie Taylors’ making engines from aluminium...
Read MoreSimple – if not easy..
If we all do a little a little will be done Climate change is going to be huge so we all need to do a lot Housing - insulation, solar, size reduction Transport - solar, electric, VegOil, public transport & walk Lifestyle - re-use, recycle, boys pee in the garden, get books off the net, put on a beanie & a sweater when it gets cool Climate change is a function of carbon emissions and they are a function of us So its up to us to function sensibly as one for all of us and our children and theirs Its that...
Read MoreSo the target’s there at last for all to see
- at the edge of the paddock and perhaps out of range We are to be carbon neutral in 85 years time Not mentioned is the elephant in the paddock the fresh water crisis affecting a third of humanity now perhaps two thirds forecast in only 10 years time most of the killed , children Will she shield us from seeing that target and the need to bring it forward Will she just compound the problem forcing us to decide in only a decade’s time to save the planet or those thousands of innocent children Or perhaps both
Read More100 Australias
If a third the world struggle for water today and in just 10 years time a further third are to join them That will be 100 Australias for whom probably desal plants will have to be made probably powered by renewables convoys of tankers laid on an effective and everyday distribution service built to rival all the world’s postal services The cost enormous the cost of not doing it anarchy civil breakdown international war & genocidal death. World war 2 took 6 years World war 1 4 years Arms linked together as long as this problem is recognised 10 years should be ...
Read MoreToo many coincidences
Is it just a coincidence? that we are here Our mother was born with about 300 eggs which could become nothing a sister a brother - or us A Dad makes about 525 billion sperm during his life so the chance of us being here is 0.003 X 1.9 x 10^-12 about 15.7 x 10^-15… - or one chance in many thousands of worlds like ours except few mums have even a dozen children… - are we a coincidence or design? Our blue planet spins at a radius from the sun closer we would be dry & fried further away frozen coincidence or design? When Voyager reached the edge of the Milky way and they turned her cameras on us we were the ONLY blue body to be seen because of our seas And...
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Water boatman is a unit on the water, that takes in polluted or sea water, distills it & either stores the pure water – or pumps it ashore. Water boatman is a unit on the water, that takes in polluted or sea water, distills it & either stores the pure water – or pumps it ashore. 
