Brain fart and epiphany about the new wealth, blue gold. [View all]

[Cleita]

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I'm listening to the Thom Hartmann show like I do every day and the discussion is about the Keystone pipeline going through the Ogallala Aquifer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer) and oil drilling on it. It's mentioned that the Bush family have invested and bought real estate in what encompasses the Guaraní Aquifer in Paraguay essentially privatizing a huge fresh water reserve or what the caller called blue gold.

It suddenly hits me that this is why the 1%, not just the Bushes or the Koch Bros, don't give a shit about global climate change or petroleum products pollution. They know that oil is going to be gone soon so they are investing in the next money making mineral, fresh water. They want those ice shelves on the poles and the glaciers on the Andes and Himalayas to melt. It's the water. They want to pollute what FREE water we get so they can sell water to us. They have set this in motion for their future generations, not ours.

I want to believe it's coincidence and that they are too stupid to imagine such a grand scheme, yet I wonder. They do own most of the wealth of not only this nation but the world. It's a small world they live in and we only are allowed to live short brutal lives in it as consumers of their products so they can live in splendor with air conditioning, swimming pools and gardens with fountains, something most of us won't be able to do as we grub for every nickel in order to buy their fresh water like we have to buy their oil today.

Okay, talk me down.