What's interesting with this argument is that it's proportional. e.g. if eating x amount of meat wastes y amount of resource, then eating 0.5x amount of meat wastes 0.5y amount of resource. Therefore, while taking this argument to its extreme would lead you all the way to vegetarianism (and even to veganism) if we are just ready to reduce our consumption to a more reasonable amount, the argument still works.
We read books, hear stories and watch films about apocalyptic scenarios to humor and frighten ourselves. Now we are facing an event which is more disastrous than any film, yet we shrug it off as if it is just the ramblings of a few crazy people. I'm only 16 but the future I will be a part of scares the hell out of ne!
In his place , i an 16 year old boy feel more scared than him by the date that it will be exhausted by 2040 in about 15 years . What lead me here was reading about water scarcity from my book and....... I guess we ll have to live with it
Reason price stays high for something is because there's demand for it. Just because a certain sector can't afford to spend money on a product doesn't stop others to spend money on it. About gas, like I said, anything that's scarce makes a great business. Now that gas is scarce, it's the best time to keep the demand high and ignoring the alternatives. If you've seen the movie "Blood diamonds" they tell you how the dealers reduce the supply of diamonds to keep the demand high. Scarcity = Profit
The reason I was avoiding electricity is because if something were to happen to it, someone else would have to go and fix it and a lot of these places are quite a while a way. I've been thinking about it and I came up with the idea to use a hand pump and a container that would be 5 glasses full of water. Have a check valve for pulling the air out, and reverse the valve in the hand pump. Maybe put a lens on it to heat the water with solar power and make it faster.
Thankfully here in Australia people seem to value water a little more than most due to that large drought we had.. but then again i'm only really speculating from my own feelings about water. not sure about other aussies.
There is some information here, but mostly, this video just made me anxious. Not just with all the unanswered questions it raises, but also, maybe next time, get a voice actor to do the narration. No offense. Trust me, I am no model. If I designed clothes, I would hire models instead of modeling the clothes myself. Anyway, I am clicking around the TED website trying to find the rest of this series. (I found only one other video, the one with the droplet, "Where we get our fresh water." But it doesn't answer the questions raised in this video.) I can guarantee you, most people will not even search that far. If you want to educate, don't make it difficult for people to find information.
Desalination on any significant scale is expensive. Really expensive. And unless you work it into the government budget, it's only going to drive water prices up. That is a very last ditch effort. Australia went through a serious drought for about 10 years semi-recently. Ended up building a desalination plant. Drought ended, making us look dumb - but we still had to foot a 1.8 billion dollar bill (tax money) for something that is still running (and costing). Not ideal at all.
A higher price in a certain sector means people will be more willing to invest in other, less expensive ways to do whatever they are doing. People weren't buying electric/hybrid/hydrogen fuel cars 50 years ago because gas was cheap enough that they didn't need to. Now that gas is relatively expensive, people are more willing to spend money on alternatives.
As Hank Green stated, we have for 10,000 years competed with other life forms on earth for water and land use. Now were are competing with other humans.
Anything that is profitable for corporations becomes scarce. And when solving the issue threatens the business, corporations will do everything in their power to stop the solution with total disregard for the future of human life
@@Love-np2rt Yeah, that's true all around. Before mechanization, it used to be that animals were really important in a farm since they were used for some of the farm work. Also, farming plants was much more labor intensive in general, letting animals graze required less labor in comparison. So it kinda made sense to raise animals for food back then. But none of this is true nowadays, to the point that it has become more efficient to grow plants and feed those plants to animals crammed in a warehouse than to let animals directly. And yet, it would also be much more efficient to just grow plants to feed humans directly. With few exceptons, farming animals for food with today's technologies is an aberration from a resource management point of view.
nice concept! this could be done on a huge scale, imagine we watered a desert and it became teaming with life, not that its cool to play god like that, but it would be possible. it may take a lot of energy to do it that way but if it were solar powered it could just be left going with an constant output of fresh water... im sure someone who knows their chemistry and science could come up with an even more efficient way though. P.s. dont know why someone is down voting our comments and replies:S
Maybe there could be something like a daily limit of 10 gallons of water per day per person in the country. You could do so using technology to turn off the water supply in a household once the daily limit has been reached.
We can make fresh water out of sea water. there are desalination plants in the Los Angels area. I am not sure how efficient they are or how much it costs to run them, but we can do it now. I also believe that there are some in Saudi Arabia.
Then make it efficient. We are smart enough to do so. The science community must gather together and put as much energy as it can into ingenuity. When mankind puts its mind together as one, nothing is impossible for them.
Also, I wonder if the increased waste from tar sands would be counted towards industrial uses ... probably, but that's still a recent addition as a large increased share of the total.
Technologies exist... spirit-power is lacking. "We need a change of heart, a reframing of all our conceptions and a new orientation of our activities. The inward life of man as well as his outward environment have to be reshaped if human salvation is to be secured." ~ Baha'i Faith
How can something so abundant be so scare when there is already solution for the problem, which isn't that costly either? Desalination is the solution because salt water is literally the most abundant thing on our planet.
So basically, we need to find a way to reduce industrial and agricultural waste of water...and to do that, we need the CEOs in charge of these companies to stop being so greedy...
I'm disappointed now. I thought my little water saving actions, had an effect somewhere. May be helped a few people. I nagged others hours on end, putting forward my point of view, about water consumption. Now I realize that I’m just a fool, pretending to be a savior.
THAT'S MY POINT. Making something scarce doesn't necessarily mean it's actually scarce. Businesses NEED scarcity, without it, the business dies because there is no demand. Do you know how much money businesses make off of water? Does it mean water is scarce? They sell some bottled water for such high prices claiming it's "fresh mountain water" or some other bullshit. Does that mean it's safer than tap water? No. But in order for that to sell, they need to create an illusion of scarcity.
While watching this video, I had the idea to make a cheap vacuum ... barrel (something about that size) that would lower the air pressure and you would be able to boil water, collect it as it evaporates into another container. Since water boils and the stuff in the water doesn't, that would clean the water nearly 100%. Could be done very easily. If anyone else is interested let me know. If you have better resources for it, more power to you. If it were my choice, it would be non-profit.
I had the idea of making another petty excuse for not eating meat, however. Plant NEED water too, and probrably as much as animals do. But really, about the water cycle... Doesn't salt water get evaporated? Then we get condensation...
privatization of water is a rather big problem...do we any recognized commons? the mojave aquifer is now owned by infamous blackwater. i learned that poking around a few years ago..
Everyone should try to reduce water pollutions even though stopping this is impossible due to temperatures rising and decreasing oxygen in water,which can still lead to biodiversity dying out.if we reduce it,at least we can lower the rate of how fast and how many jellyfishes can be bred in warm waters,and also turn water a bit more warmer.Corals,turtles,fishes almost anything in the ocean or sea dies out to water pollution and it is mainly cause by us humans.if only we could actually stop global temperatures from rising too high,it could help in many factors.
Here is how we hit many birds with one stone: Simultaneous water desalination and electricity generation. Clean water ,clean energy, and high skilled jobs.
You forgot to mention the preexisting solution called the water cycle.. Not saying it solves everything, just saying that I find it a bit annoying and odd how people all hyped up about water usage always avoid the water cycle..
just about the only argument going for vegetarianism imo. Eating meat thus far costs far too many resources. I've heard of some interesting experiments about growing meat but who knows if that will ever yield any substantial results.
3:39 The 70% of fresh water going to agriculture claim needs citation and backup. Even if it is 70%, the real question is, is growing food wasting water?
Saving water might be reasonable in locations where water is in fact scarce. However, people often forget about locations where water is in no way a scarce resource. For example in most German regions we completely live from groundwater, that is fed by rain water. There is enough rain to make water a non-scarce resource. Saving water here is a nice approach to save energy and so on, but would never help the global water issues in any way.
The common good must come first. If we work together, we can solve these issues. A combination of policies to improve irrigation efficiency, breed and grow less water intensive crops, reuse industrial water by cleaning it, and obtaining water when needed from melting ice sheets pumped into tankers for the time being may buy us some time as solar powered desalination grows. Good governments are the keys to good water management and critical decisions regarding water, our shared success depends on working together to solve this problem, and I'm confident we can. 💙 💦 🌊 🌞
Common good? But doesn't making fresh water a common good or a public good only leads to more unsustainable use of water? I mean, if it is being profited, then it can be regulated by the government by imposing taxes on the firms producing water... Please help me understand her point.
Desalination plants and carbon-nano filters can solve the entire worlds problems. But we will have to get profits & corporations out of the equation. As long as something so essential and necessary for human life is seen as a business we will never get anything significant done.
Everyone is saying the same thing - give up meat and dairy and you'll be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. A meat based diet uses at least 20 times more water than a plant based diet. Most people know this but are too stubborn, selfish and egotistical to change. People hate feeling they're being dictated too, even tho they're not. It's simply common sense. People say they want a future for their children but fail to put their money where there mouth is. It's very simple. Go vegan, live at least 10 years longer and you'll be in less trouble with the Gods when you die too. Do it!
and you kind of missed my point and proved it in your comment. If oxygen was profitable, it would take a cataclysmic event to get rid of it, because business would invest a lot in keeping it around as long as possible so they wouldn't lose the resource they are making money from. The price system really is an amazing thing. If something becomes scarce, it will drive up price, as you said, and people will consume less of it. simple economics.
Umm, i thought technologically has advanced enough that if we really tried hard enough that we could actually convert some Ocean water into fresh water.
That video is just so completely devoid of facts; i don't know where to begin. Just one of the problems with that video is that it assumes what we have today is capitalism. They are WRONG. We have crony capitalism, where corporations use government power, military and Federal Reserve to gain money through force rather than voluntary action. Read this book (very quick read, it is more of a comic book) explaining capitalism very well. (i will PM you the link)
I wanted to know why fresh water is scarce? I've heard this before but forgive my feeble mind but I cannot fathom how this is possible? Unless what you mean is over population? Which for me is the bigger issue here.
Rather dissapointed that neither game theory / despoiling of the commons, nor the receding glaciers / ice pack melting due to global warming were mentioned.
The first one is the first in a six part episode. watch all six: 1) th-cam.com/video/F0VHiONkot8/w-d-xo.html 2) th-cam.com/video/4Ttbj6LAu0A/w-d-xo.html 3) th-cam.com/video/AETHY9SuxEc/w-d-xo.html
Although four children dying per minute is tragic the alternative would be adding another 2.1 million Third World babies to the planet every year. We need to find the right answer to these quandaries lest we all die of thirst.
Absolute love! its about time someone trys fixing this problem!! by 2050 we will have to be vegans due to lack OF FRESH WATER!! and people keep having kids!!
Having no water you can't put out the FNaF animatronics! SAVE THE WATER! And the water starts in the river, or the big water thing, and it ends in the shower/sink/toilet, everybodys does.
The opposite is true. Just think about it. If something is scarce and a company is making money from it, these are their options: a) use it up and no longer be able to make money (bad for them, bad for us) b) keep it around so they can continue to make money from it (good for them, good for us) c) use it up and create an alternative product that serves the same function (good for us, good for them) You see, the interests of corporations often coincide with the interests of us as individuals.
What's interesting with this argument is that it's proportional. e.g. if eating x amount of meat wastes y amount of resource, then eating 0.5x amount of meat wastes 0.5y amount of resource. Therefore, while taking this argument to its extreme would lead you all the way to vegetarianism (and even to veganism) if we are just ready to reduce our consumption to a more reasonable amount, the argument still works.
People, you are not sharing this channel enough, please share it, people need to learn.
We read books, hear stories and watch films about apocalyptic scenarios to humor and frighten ourselves. Now we are facing an event which is more disastrous than any film, yet we shrug it off as if it is just the ramblings of a few crazy people. I'm only 16 but the future I will be a part of scares the hell out of ne!
Bruh you are 24 now lmao
@@evans2267 it's been 8 whole years since you last said this, and you talked about how 16 year old you was looking into at the future!
@@feo1041 that's crazy to think about
In his place , i an 16 year old boy feel more scared than him by the date that it will be exhausted by 2040 in about 15 years . What lead me here was reading about water scarcity from my book and....... I guess we ll have to live with it
There will come a time in life when water is very rare that people and nations would assess wars just to be able to get some.
nah. by that time we would have invented cheap methods of desalinating saltwater.
Reason price stays high for something is because there's demand for it. Just because a certain sector can't afford to spend money on a product doesn't stop others to spend money on it.
About gas, like I said, anything that's scarce makes a great business. Now that gas is scarce, it's the best time to keep the demand high and ignoring the alternatives.
If you've seen the movie "Blood diamonds" they tell you how the dealers reduce the supply of diamonds to keep the demand high. Scarcity = Profit
The reason I was avoiding electricity is because if something were to happen to it, someone else would have to go and fix it and a lot of these places are quite a while a way.
I've been thinking about it and I came up with the idea to use a hand pump and a container that would be 5 glasses full of water.
Have a check valve for pulling the air out, and reverse the valve in the hand pump. Maybe put a lens on it to heat the water with solar power and make it faster.
Thankfully here in Australia people seem to value water a little more than most due to that large drought we had.. but then again i'm only really speculating from my own feelings about water. not sure about other aussies.
There is some information here, but mostly, this video just made me anxious. Not just with all the unanswered questions it raises, but also, maybe next time, get a voice actor to do the narration. No offense. Trust me, I am no model. If I designed clothes, I would hire models instead of modeling the clothes myself. Anyway, I am clicking around the TED website trying to find the rest of this series. (I found only one other video, the one with the droplet, "Where we get our fresh water." But it doesn't answer the questions raised in this video.) I can guarantee you, most people will not even search that far. If you want to educate, don't make it difficult for people to find information.
If people want to know, it's not that hard to google stuff on google. We live in a modern society where information is at our fingertips.
You’re so mean
holy yap
Anyone here for online school?
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Come to Japan !!
Water is so clean and drinkable!!
Desalination on any significant scale is expensive. Really expensive. And unless you work it into the government budget, it's only going to drive water prices up.
That is a very last ditch effort. Australia went through a serious drought for about 10 years semi-recently. Ended up building a desalination plant. Drought ended, making us look dumb - but we still had to foot a 1.8 billion dollar bill (tax money) for something that is still running (and costing).
Not ideal at all.
You should see her previous video. 'Where we get our fresh water - Christina Z.'
A higher price in a certain sector means people will be more willing to invest in other, less expensive ways to do whatever they are doing. People weren't buying electric/hybrid/hydrogen fuel cars 50 years ago because gas was cheap enough that they didn't need to. Now that gas is relatively expensive, people are more willing to spend money on alternatives.
As Hank Green stated, we have for 10,000 years competed with other life forms on earth for water and land use. Now were are competing with other humans.
Anything that is profitable for corporations becomes scarce. And when solving the issue threatens the business, corporations will do everything in their power to stop the solution with total disregard for the future of human life
Thank you this really changed the way I think about how much water we use🥛
we also need o consider that not all the water used for agriculture dissappears, very much of it goes to fuel lakes and rives and rain etc
Something you could do to save water is eat less meat. Bovine meat in particular takes about 15,000 litres of water by kilograms to produce.
Thank you!! It's very wasteful to raise animals for meat.
@@Love-np2rt Yeah, that's true all around. Before mechanization, it used to be that animals were really important in a farm since they were used for some of the farm work. Also, farming plants was much more labor intensive in general, letting animals graze required less labor in comparison. So it kinda made sense to raise animals for food back then. But none of this is true nowadays, to the point that it has become more efficient to grow plants and feed those plants to animals crammed in a warehouse than to let animals directly. And yet, it would also be much more efficient to just grow plants to feed humans directly. With few exceptons, farming animals for food with today's technologies is an aberration from a resource management point of view.
THE NARRATOR SOUND LIKE ITS GONNA CRY THAT MAKES ME SAD IDK WHY AAAAA
nice concept! this could be done on a huge scale, imagine we watered a desert and it became teaming with life, not that its cool to play god like that, but it would be possible. it may take a lot of energy to do it that way but if it were solar powered it could just be left going with an constant output of fresh water... im sure someone who knows their chemistry and science could come up with an even more efficient way though.
P.s. dont know why someone is down voting our comments and replies:S
since the water we use gets recycled how would taking shorter showers and not running water while brushing your teeth do anything?
It is generally not clean enough for domestic uses and is often reclaimed water.
Maybe there could be something like a daily limit of 10 gallons of water per day per person in the country. You could do so using technology to turn off the water supply in a household once the daily limit has been reached.
We can make fresh water out of sea water. there are desalination plants in the Los Angels area. I am not sure how efficient they are or how much it costs to run them, but we can do it now. I also believe that there are some in Saudi Arabia.
It's very expensive to desalienate.
Then make it efficient. We are smart enough to do so. The science community must gather together and put as much energy as it can into ingenuity. When mankind puts its mind together as one, nothing is impossible for them.
Also, I wonder if the increased waste from tar sands would be counted towards industrial uses ... probably, but that's still a recent addition as a large increased share of the total.
Beautiful paragraph, this shit needs to go into everybody's head in America.
Technologies exist... spirit-power is lacking. "We need a change of heart, a reframing of all our conceptions and a new orientation of our activities. The inward life of man as well as his outward environment have to be reshaped if human salvation is to be secured." ~ Baha'i Faith
How can something so abundant be so scare when there is already solution for the problem, which isn't that costly either? Desalination is the solution because salt water is literally the most abundant thing on our planet.
So basically, we need to find a way to reduce industrial and agricultural waste of water...and to do that, we need the CEOs in charge of these companies to stop being so greedy...
I grew up with the freshest well water you can imagine.
It was hard to imagine not having water growing up, but now I understand how lucky I was.
okay champ
I'm disappointed now. I thought my little water saving actions, had an effect somewhere. May be helped a few people. I nagged others hours on end, putting forward my point of view, about water consumption. Now I realize that I’m just a fool, pretending to be a savior.
No, thank you for trying. Please continue. it does help, it really does. Don't stop.
22 children have died when you watched this viedo
nice
Good
What?
@@shejuti04 yeah big shock
@@EijiSalvadorWHAT!? HOW IS THAT GOOD???
THAT'S MY POINT. Making something scarce doesn't necessarily mean it's actually scarce. Businesses NEED scarcity, without it, the business dies because there is no demand.
Do you know how much money businesses make off of water? Does it mean water is scarce? They sell some bottled water for such high prices claiming it's "fresh mountain water" or some other bullshit. Does that mean it's safer than tap water? No. But in order for that to sell, they need to create an illusion of scarcity.
While watching this video, I had the idea to make a cheap vacuum ... barrel (something about that size) that would lower the air pressure and you would be able to boil water, collect it as it evaporates into another container.
Since water boils and the stuff in the water doesn't, that would clean the water nearly 100%.
Could be done very easily. If anyone else is interested let me know. If you have better resources for it, more power to you.
If it were my choice, it would be non-profit.
bros from 9 years ago wsg but nice idea tho
I'm doing this for school
I need a wee now...
sorry but no one asked
I had the idea of making another petty excuse for not eating meat, however. Plant NEED water too, and probrably as much as animals do. But really, about the water cycle... Doesn't salt water get evaporated? Then we get condensation...
1:18 Burkina Faso turned to a lake..?
Good thing water isn't actually limited, being able to clean saltwater to drink and all.
I have a question, do we need to use fresh water on agriculture? Or can we use water that isn't clean enough for domestic uses?
heyy! have you found an answer? please tell me
Actually for the most part we feed the animals we eat with what we grow. And for much of the rest we feed our cars.
privatization of water is a rather big problem...do we any recognized commons? the mojave aquifer is now owned by infamous blackwater. i learned that poking around a few years ago..
Everyone should try to reduce water pollutions even though stopping this is impossible due to temperatures rising and decreasing oxygen in water,which can still lead to biodiversity dying out.if we reduce it,at least we can lower the rate of how fast and how many jellyfishes can be bred in warm waters,and also turn water a bit more warmer.Corals,turtles,fishes almost anything in the ocean or sea dies out to water pollution and it is mainly cause by us humans.if only we could actually stop global temperatures from rising too high,it could help in many factors.
Here is how we hit many birds with one stone:
Simultaneous water desalination and electricity generation. Clean water ,clean energy, and high skilled jobs.
hey what's up guys it's scarce here
You forgot to mention the preexisting solution called the water cycle.. Not saying it solves everything, just saying that I find it a bit annoying and odd how people all hyped up about water usage always avoid the water cycle..
just about the only argument going for vegetarianism imo. Eating meat thus far costs far too many resources. I've heard of some interesting experiments about growing meat but who knows if that will ever yield any substantial results.
they have some many kids because so many die in childhood. Same thing happened in the US during the great migration of the 1800's
3:39 The 70% of fresh water going to agriculture claim needs citation and backup. Even if it is 70%, the real question is, is growing food wasting water?
we developed a product for this very big problem. it could be really helpful for inhbitants to get clean water.
Thats great! Hope its going good
I always watch these kind of vids cuz my cold eater taste 10000x better with these vids
Thanks for the information.
Saving water might be reasonable in locations where water is in fact scarce.
However, people often forget about locations where water is in no way a scarce resource. For example in most German regions we completely live from groundwater, that is fed by rain water. There is enough rain to make water a non-scarce resource. Saving water here is a nice approach to save energy and so on, but would never help the global water issues in any way.
The common good must come first. If we work together, we can solve these issues. A combination of policies to improve irrigation efficiency, breed and grow less water intensive crops, reuse industrial water by cleaning it, and obtaining water when needed from melting ice sheets pumped into tankers for the time being may buy us some time as solar powered desalination grows. Good governments are the keys to good water management and critical decisions regarding water, our shared success depends on working together to solve this problem, and I'm confident we can. 💙 💦 🌊 🌞
@zjhost thanks for clearing that up. And thanks for the reply. :)
Common good? But doesn't making fresh water a common good or a public good only leads to more unsustainable use of water? I mean, if it is being profited, then it can be regulated by the government by imposing taxes on the firms producing water... Please help me understand her point.
I learned a lot
we can, but it is really expensive compared to water from other sources, so nobody does it
Desalination plants and carbon-nano filters can solve the entire worlds problems.
But we will have to get profits & corporations out of the equation.
As long as something so essential and necessary for human life is seen as a business we will never get anything significant done.
Thats some crazy stuff to bad im drinking out of a water bottle right now
Everyone is saying the same thing - give up meat and dairy and you'll be
part of the solution rather than part of the problem. A meat based
diet uses at least 20 times more water than a plant based diet. Most
people know this but are too stubborn, selfish and egotistical to
change. People hate feeling they're being dictated too, even tho
they're not. It's simply common sense. People say they want a future
for their children but fail to put their money where there mouth is.
It's very simple. Go vegan, live at least 10 years longer and you'll be
in less trouble with the Gods when you die too. Do it!
Her voice though
Yall some big-brains😄
and you kind of missed my point and proved it in your comment. If oxygen was profitable, it would take a cataclysmic event to get rid of it, because business would invest a lot in keeping it around as long as possible so they wouldn't lose the resource they are making money from. The price system really is an amazing thing. If something becomes scarce, it will drive up price, as you said, and people will consume less of it. simple economics.
No longer true. All we needed was a filter which didn't require energy or excess pressure to filter.
That's graphene.
WOOO HOOO!!! I CAN HAVE MY LONG SHOWERS!!!!
Marie Millien Yeah that's what I got from the video too
That's not what she said. Shorter showers can help if many do it, but the impact won't be as great as when less water is used in agriculture.
I could make a video asking a bunch of questions as well.
Word.
what does the infinite sign have to do with anything?
That is awesome
Umm, i thought technologically has advanced enough that if we really tried hard enough that we could actually convert some Ocean water into fresh water.
Takes a lot of energy
0:39
Vsauce2 reference?!
Too expensive, not a viable solution. Better to avoid polution in the first place.
Thanks
Tip for poeple watching with online school turn the playback speed to 2x it will go faster then you can be done faster
I feel ya
it is so nice
I love water❤
That video is just so completely devoid of facts; i don't know where to begin.
Just one of the problems with that video is that it assumes what we have today is capitalism. They are WRONG. We have crony capitalism, where corporations use government power, military and Federal Reserve to gain money through force rather than voluntary action.
Read this book (very quick read, it is more of a comic book) explaining capitalism very well. (i will PM you the link)
Put Elon Musk in the water business and he's not solely gonna think about profit. He will make water out of electricity.
This is what a hydrogen fuel cell does
He's a CEO, profit is all he cares about
that's so naive of you. Profit is all he cares about. HE'S A BILLIONAIRE.
@@maldito_sudaka naa he invented pioneered the electric car, when all the automobile hedge funds wanted him to fail
@@hughjass4290 ever heard of optics? showing off an image?
Could someone kindly name a few softwares that might be used to create similar animation?
But even if lot's of individuals decide to stop eating meat it's not going to stop meat from being produced
if we see fresh water as a common good, the water cause free riden problems and doesn't solve?
I wanted to know why fresh water is scarce? I've heard this before but forgive my feeble mind but I cannot fathom how this is possible? Unless what you mean is over population? Which for me is the bigger issue here.
Interesting, but the music is kinda annoying. Mostly because I'm wearing headphones lol
Rather dissapointed that neither game theory / despoiling of the commons, nor the receding glaciers / ice pack melting due to global warming were mentioned.
Why doesn't desalination remove this problem?
We were warned decades ago but nobody listened.
The first one is the first in a six part episode. watch all six:
1) th-cam.com/video/F0VHiONkot8/w-d-xo.html
2) th-cam.com/video/4Ttbj6LAu0A/w-d-xo.html
3) th-cam.com/video/AETHY9SuxEc/w-d-xo.html
Although four children dying per minute is tragic the alternative would be adding another 2.1 million Third World babies to the planet every year. We need to find the right answer to these quandaries lest we all die of thirst.
even if we eat less they will still keep making it
Absolute love! its about time someone trys fixing this problem!! by 2050 we will have to be vegans due to lack OF FRESH WATER!! and people keep having kids!!
Why not just use water distillation? Any type of water dirty or sea water can be made pure.
Cost of energy.
Hi
Whole Africa, China isn't a failure of a location
Anyone else from Ep?
Having no water you can't put out the FNaF animatronics! SAVE THE WATER! And the water starts in the river, or the big water thing, and it ends in the shower/sink/toilet, everybodys does.
The big water thing?
The opposite is true. Just think about it. If something is scarce and a company is making money from it, these are their options:
a) use it up and no longer be able to make money (bad for them, bad for us)
b) keep it around so they can continue to make money from it (good for them, good for us)
c) use it up and create an alternative product that serves the same function (good for us, good for them)
You see, the interests of corporations often coincide with the interests of us as individuals.
good vid but should answer the questions in the vid