Recently, the BBC is reporting that the table levels of water below cities around the world are falling, causing havoc with pipes and surface roads and streets.
Add to reports of this phenomenon, are a host of concerns about the quality of water available for drinking and bathing. It seems nearly critical for India to coddle the cows--allowing waste and pollution of the Ganges and other waters in which people swim and wash themselves yet also into which they defecate regularly. The cow should not be thought of as any sacrosanct being to do as according to its nature without constraint.
But around the world, water is can be a breeding ground for diseases that humans suffer from. It is shameful that the people of Bangladesh must live in areas of disease-infested waters. Certainly, they should be re-settled where water is clear of malaria-carrying bugs! And how about the drinking water in certain Michigan cities that fails tests administered to certify their maintenance of the standard for human consumption?
In Jamaica, I noted a few years back that sewer water was carried for miles via open pipes; and the BBC pointed out that in California, the water viaducts are sometimes flowing back rather than carrying the water to its desired locations for crop production.
Add to this amalgam of data about the condition of water that threatens our very existence is the fact of climate change, contributing to the rise of water above the ground in such cities as Miami and perhaps even London.
Friday, January 25, 2019
Saturday, January 5, 2019
President's Trump Chance at Greatness
I believe President Trump has undertaken a presidential function that could win him a place in history!
He's a maverick as Presidents go. And, he's taken on a real problem plaguing the US since the conclusion of WWII. Eisenhower drew attention to the issue in his farewell address to the nation. He referred to as an unholy alliance of big business and the federal government, viz., the industrial-military complex.
It took till Trump for a President to challenge the existence of this alliance by positing his doctrine of "US first." According to it, if there's no benefit to the US, any proposed project for the country to undertake must yield good results within a set period of time, given the promised governmental resources of the nation dedicated to it.
This doctrine, I think, has been appropriately applied to the continuing war in Afghanistan,which the US is attempting to scale down its involvement to a standard offer of providing assistance for training and consultation to governments facing some immediate crisis.
He's a maverick as Presidents go. And, he's taken on a real problem plaguing the US since the conclusion of WWII. Eisenhower drew attention to the issue in his farewell address to the nation. He referred to as an unholy alliance of big business and the federal government, viz., the industrial-military complex.
It took till Trump for a President to challenge the existence of this alliance by positing his doctrine of "US first." According to it, if there's no benefit to the US, any proposed project for the country to undertake must yield good results within a set period of time, given the promised governmental resources of the nation dedicated to it.
This doctrine, I think, has been appropriately applied to the continuing war in Afghanistan,which the US is attempting to scale down its involvement to a standard offer of providing assistance for training and consultation to governments facing some immediate crisis.
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