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Yep, the next world war will be over water. It's already being labeled as 'blue gold,' just like oil was labeled 'black gold,' and that's no coincidence. Little do most people realize that ALL wars are over the control of the world's resources, and have nothing to do with terrorism or religious fanaticism. The Great War was a war over oil and had little or nothing to do with the terrorist attack that ended the life of Franz Ferdinand. In the 100 years since all wars that followed were similarly motivated. Afghanistan is needed for gas- and oil pipelines and control over heroin production. Irak has oil, and its leader wanted to trade that oil in euros instead of Dollars, threatening its position as world currency. If you didn't know already: the U.S. FED is able to print more currency than any other central bank because of this fact. If any country wants to buy oil, it has to buy dollars first.
Dollars were backed by gold, since Bretton-Woods by oil and other natural resources, but mainly oil, hence 'black gold.'I hope you can see why it worries me that water is now called 'blue gold.' It's one of capitalism's 'greatest' feats that it has managed to turn the world's most abundant liquid, water, into a scarce product. If you've never heard of it, look up some information on the Cochabamba Water War; after the Bolivian government was forced to privatize its water, we had the first small water war. 'Privatization' is one of capitalism's many buzzwords, presented as an essential part of the ever-holy 'free market,' that we as western societies have wholly bought into. So much so, that we even manage to privatize the source of all life on the planet, and thereby make it scarce. Here's Wikipedia's article on the upcoming water conflicts.
Maybe you'll think me mad, or a crazy communist, but I want you to think about this: water pollution is great news for a bottled water business. Before the pollution, this business wasn't even needed at all. But it's good for any growth-based economic model that new industries arise. It's bad for such an economy to go for the sensible solution, which is to stop the pollution and to cooperate in establishing a better and wider water pipeline network, which eliminates the ever-reoccurring transport costs (and subsequent further pollution of the environment), and ensures fresh drinking water for every household. In the world. But all those transport jobs and businesses would perish, further shrinking the economy, which is the opposite of growth, and we can't have that, now can we? All those polluting plastic bottles represent jobs too, you know..? Oil isn't important in the long run; oil is just energy, and there are alternatives for that.
These alternatives will become available only if and when we leave behind us the ridiculous notion of economic growth; perpetual growth is antithetical to the finite planet we live on, a simple truth that's dismissed by this economy. If you want to know the real reason why the financial services industries have grown so much, why trading stocks account for a disproportionately high percentage of all growth as well as all money in circulation, you need to look no further than capitalism's NEED for growth. Trading stocks or currencies doesn't add any real-world value. It's not producing anything but fake growth, money making more money if we look at the big picture. Apple's stock price is in no way a reflection of what the company really produces. For further exploration, here's the full documentary Blue Gold - World Water Wars, dealing with the corporate theft of the world's drinking water: Water is important though; there are NO alternatives to water. I've written about this many times in the past, but we need to all know how miraculous, unique, and irreplaceable water really is. Water, my friends, has memory.
This stuff remembers all the other stuff it comes into contact with. Water is believed to be the place, the environment where life started, and I strongly hold on to the possibility that if we learn how to read water's memory, we might be able to read the story of the genesis and evolution of all life on Earth. Sounds crazy, no? Let me try to convince you.' Memory is the best description we've managed to come up with for one of water's many miraculous behaviors. We all know about homeopathic medicines, where they dilute some substance in water so much, that almost nothing of the substance remains; you're basically just drinking water. This is widely ridiculed or has been for decades, by traditional science. But in 1979 Jacques Benveniste published a paper in his studies on immunology, allergy, and inflammation, that should have changed this view forever. He diluted the substance so much, that there could be statistically speaking no molecules left of the substance. Yet, every sample taken from the highly diluted substance had the effect of just adding the highly concentrated version of it. Somehow the substance was 'remembered' or 'stored' in the structure of the H2O molecules.
If you want to know what we've managed to uncover about this mysterious property of water, watch the 50-minute documentary below, or search for some of the works of Masaru Emoto; you'll be amazed. Water is life. It's crazy that we now have to contemplate the question of who owns our water. Water is life, so who owns Life? Is life to be a bottled, traded for-profit product? When do we privatize air? If you've been paying attention, you'd know we already did. Unpolluted air, that is; with the emission trading system, we've put a price on polluting air, which is the same as putting a price on clean air. But we won't go to war over the air. Not yet. Blue gold is the next station. We live on the Blue Planet, not the Gold Ball in space...
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