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Water scarcity: a threat to global food supply : Comments
By Mark Rosegrant, published 17/8/2006Water is not like oil - there is no substitute. If we continue to take it for granted, much of the Earth will run short of water or food - or both.
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"http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-water-we-take-for-granted/2006/08/18/1155408025290.html
This SMH article represents a typical lie based on Howard spin and riddle.
Only an unsatidfactory poll mechanism would put Overcrowding and Water shortages last on that poll list. I mean for water and overcrowding to be last, there had to be a list. That list HAD to have been pre-itemised, and anyone who thinks Howard would not arrange the list so Water and overcrowding would be last still believes in Santa.
Further, the poll was another one of those Nation-wide ones when it should have been based on Sydney alone because Sydney has 25% of the population and is being singled out with around 100,000 immigrants and more than 50,000 of their cars as an extra load on Sydney every year.
The real questions of relevance here should have been:
*Do you think Peak Hour Times are getting longer in the main focus of immigration, Sydney, because of too many cars and thus too many people settling in Sydney. And trains, police, hospitals?
* Do you think Water restrictions in Sydney are unfair when they are purely related to Government and corporations unsustainably profiteering from focusing immigration in Sydney.
*Do you think the above concerns are top of the list, bearing in mind Australia is ONE NATION where we should be 'all for one and one for all', when corrupt forces are clearly perpetrating commercial injustices against our fellow citizens of Sydney.
I think all Australians would tell the truth and answer positively on those concerns.
Additionally the poll should have at least had a quarter of respondents chosen from Sydney to reflect the population balance! I mean they probably asked 2000 of the 3550 people from elite Melbourne Suburbs to enforce their desired media propaganda.
God help us all when New Media Monopoly laws get passed. I can see the first poll now:
" Australians, in a new Federal Poll (1000 people in Wahroonga!) agree that all traffic offenders and abusers of water restrictions should be transported to New Zealand Penal Colonies"