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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (61179)10/4/2002 6:38:17 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
I would say a number of factors are coming together in a potentially dangerous combination.

1. We are using up our fresh water supplies beyond the point of recharge. The Ogalla Aquifer is getting depleted. Los Angeles is going further and further afield for water, has already destroyed Mono lake, and isn't done yet. The Klamath River Basin crisis has led to armed stand-offs. And much of the world still lacks a safe source of any potable water at all. There's a severe limit to what desalinization or melting the glaciers can do.

2. I'm not sure about the scientific basis behind global warming, but for sure we are depleting the ozone layer, and are pouring pollutants into the air in alarming rates. Mexico City's air is unhealthy much of the year and outright dangerous many days.

3. Our careless use of antibiotics is creating much more virulent bugs that adapt far faster than we can create antidotes. Drug resistent staph is close to crisis stage in some hospitals. the West Nile virus is just a minor inconvenience compared to some of the other things nature has in store for us. Because of our biology, we are much slower to adapt to bugs than they are to adapt to our attempts to wipe them out.

I could go on, but these will do for starters.
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