does someone wanna argue with me? any topic, you choose. plus i gotta brush up on my debating skills for school, more and more poeple are proving me wrong
Something my proffesor was talking about during a lecture. It really opened my eyes towards the consumption of water
"By 2025, the world’s population will increase to almost 9 billion people.
According to the United Nations, as many as two-thirds of those people will be living in conditions of serious water shortage.
Global demand for fresh water will exceed availability by 56 percent.
31 countries in the world already face water stress and scarcity.
Bottled water costs 10 000 times more than the equivalent volume of water from the tap, yet has been demonstrated to be of equal or lesser quality than municipal tap water.
In Canada, bottled water companies pay nothing for the 30 billion liters of water (1000 L/person) that they extract per year, while contributing to the depletion of groundwater resources.
The average Canadian household consumes approximately 500 000 liters of water per year.
Households and municipalities account for only 10% of total water use.
Industry: 20 to 25%…
Irrigation for ‘industrial’ crop production claims 65-70% of all water use by humans.
The Ogallala aquifer that sustains a full one fifth of all agricultural land in the US, is ‘mined’ at a rate of 50 million liters per minute; 14 times faster than it is replenished by recharge.
Since 1991, its water table drops by at least one meter. By some estimates, more that half of its water is already gone.
By 2020, the California Department of Water Resources predicts that the state will face a critical shortfall of water equal to the total municipal consumption today.
Major cities in the US, including Phoenix AZ, Tuscon AZ and Albequerque, NM, Seattle WA, El Paso TX, Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI will likely completely exhaust their available water resources in your lifetime.
What can you do? "
http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3env100y/env/ENV100/sci/hydrology.htm
the problem with that is we came from monkeys, so should I eat my grandpa who is in a wheel chair just because i am the future of the world. i came from him as we came from monkeys
Yup saw that coming the evolution argument, you should try including abortion, war, and racism in this thread too, that’ll really get it going.
And we came from apes not monkeys, so screw the monkeys, but I do think it is mean to feed the homeless only the brains as that could result in genetic deformaties, for following generations, of urban nomads.
