Yes, agreed. Watching H2O scared the shit out of me because there's so much reality in it. (ILU, Paul Gross. Call me.)
Of course, we have the same problem with food production: the way we're doing it and with many of the really marginal lands we're doing it on, it takes massive amounts of water. I don't remember what the figures were, but I heard a staggering statistic recently where they calculated how much water it takes to operate the machinery, grow the corn or grain or whatever, and keep the cattle watered in order to produce like 100 pounds of beef. And they were talking like literally millions of gallons. It was mind-blowing.
Agriculture at this point is running dry or just severely polluting so many of our rivers, and of course we need the crops they're growing, but we're going about it in such a backward way most of the time. It's become completely unprofitable to grow what will grow best in that specific area, or to grow with the seasons, or to grow without pesticides... farmers can't even get by half the time, and of course they're up to their eyeballs in debt with all the equipment, Monsanto seeds and the rest of it.
After looking more into the imminent collapse of so many of our fisheries, the heavy-metals poisoning that most of those fish have anyway, and all the rest of it, I've stopped eating seafood. I might go entirely vegetarian, actually. But I don't know if it's entirely possible these days not to buy food that will make you sick or that is seriously harming the environment. I was reading this book "The Cure" and while it is a ridiculous jumble of pseudoscience, the basic message is to eat more very natural (raw) food. Which is a good concept. If you can find such a thing. I could've done it in Humboldt; in rural Colorado, not so much.
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Date: 2010-08-18 09:10 pm (UTC)Of course, we have the same problem with food production: the way we're doing it and with many of the really marginal lands we're doing it on, it takes massive amounts of water. I don't remember what the figures were, but I heard a staggering statistic recently where they calculated how much water it takes to operate the machinery, grow the corn or grain or whatever, and keep the cattle watered in order to produce like 100 pounds of beef. And they were talking like literally millions of gallons. It was mind-blowing.
Agriculture at this point is running dry or just severely polluting so many of our rivers, and of course we need the crops they're growing, but we're going about it in such a backward way most of the time. It's become completely unprofitable to grow what will grow best in that specific area, or to grow with the seasons, or to grow without pesticides... farmers can't even get by half the time, and of course they're up to their eyeballs in debt with all the equipment, Monsanto seeds and the rest of it.
After looking more into the imminent collapse of so many of our fisheries, the heavy-metals poisoning that most of those fish have anyway, and all the rest of it, I've stopped eating seafood. I might go entirely vegetarian, actually. But I don't know if it's entirely possible these days not to buy food that will make you sick or that is seriously harming the environment. I was reading this book "The Cure" and while it is a ridiculous jumble of pseudoscience, the basic message is to eat more very natural (raw) food. Which is a good concept. If you can find such a thing. I could've done it in Humboldt; in rural Colorado, not so much.