(Disinfo.com published this essay previously, but has since shut down their site, so here it is...)
"I can't believe we're going to
have this conversation. I can't believe that this planet has been
beaten by a viral spread of humans to the point where the very gifts
the planet gives us have been rendered into poison, or perhaps worse
yet, expropriated only for profit.
Water is a requirement for life. It is
any individual's right to have access to clean water, for free,
regardless of any other concern. To withhold water in any fashion
should be a crime. To charge people for the water that the Earth
provides should be a crime. To contaminate any water source should be
a crime. The solution to any water problem has to be a response to
corporatism and politics at the end of those doing the damage, as
well as education for those of us currently suffering due to a mere
lack of water. The water problem, like all our major concerns, is
wholly concerned with money and the making of it. We needn't worry
about protecting our resources from the thirsty, we need to protect
them from the greedy."
The preceding two paragraphs are from
an essay I wrote in 2013 On Water, it is the
examination of one Canadian's view on what is a global problem, the
systemic ruination of our most important resource. The issues
experienced by places like Flint, Michigan are not unique or
even rare. Now it seems every state east of the Mississippi has lead
in their water. In the recent past, our search for oil and
natural gas has rendered our taps into flame throwers and these are
all things that are happening in our own backyard, saying nothing
about what we do to other nations.
These issues continue to be the product
of greed. If the water supply is, shall we say, in need of correction
and the people charged with maintaining the water are lying about its
safety, they are in fact poisoning the public. They don't do this
merely in an attempt to protect their positions or to solely allow
the gears of industry to roll on unhindered. There always has to be
money involved. It is too expensive to even consider reasonable
solutions, such as don't poison the fucking water in the first place.
At any rate, we certainly don't have a time machine, so we'll just
lie to the public and hope no one notices.
Of course we always notice. The new
problem becomes one of necessity. When one's water becomes
undrinkable, it is already too late. America's water problem is not
simply because an industry shat in its employees' fountain, it is a
product of everything that is wrong with America. Lack of foresight
is tantamount to doom. Capitalism is easily perverted because money
will always bypass empathy and ultimately, people take the path of
least resistance.
We have the same problem up here in
Canada, Lil' Baby America, trying to ruin its western provinces
burning dinosaur bones. Giving fresh British Columbian water to
Nestle for free. We are not exempt up here, we have idiots too,
so don't get all defensive. I just want to know what we're all going
to do about it. We simply cannot allow those charged with protecting
the resources required for survival to fail, in any way, at all
costs. I don't yet know what that means exactly, but if I turn on my
tap and anything other than water comes out, action will be taken.
on water link
http://www.anti-socialengineering.com/2013/11/on-water.html
flint michigan link
http://www.businessinsider.in/This-billion-dollar-American-water-crisis-couldve-been-averted-for-36000/articleshow/50608132.cms
lead in their water link
BC water to Nestle for free
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Outrage+boils+over+government+plans+sell+groundwater+million+litres/10865416/story.html
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