Posted in Economy, Environment, Jordan, Peace, Society on Jul 13th, 2006
note: Well, having been dumped off of my plane, I get to write the post that I should have written yesterday morning. I will be trying again THIS morning to actually make it on a plane. We’ll see.
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I’ve made the point about the connection between water and war.
But, the point is really more about sophistication. It’s about societal development.
There are A LOT of reasons why societies don’t develop, and it seems that most of them are concentrated in the countries in our neighborhood. Egypt is one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. The Syrians are viciously repressive of their people. The Lebanese are constantly on the brink of civil war.
note: Well, having been dumped off of my plane, I get to write the post that I should have written yesterday morning. I will be trying again THIS morning to actually make it on a plane. We’ll see.
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I’ve made the point about the connection between water and war.
But, the point is really more about sophistication. It’s about societal development.
There are A LOT of reasons why societies don’t develop, and it seems that most of them are concentrated in the countries in our neighborhood. Egypt is one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. The Syrians are viciously repressive of their people. The Lebanese are constantly on the brink of civil war.
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Posted in Economy, Environment, Peace, Society on Jul 7th, 2006
You know where water comes from. EVERYONE knows where water comes from. You turn a faucet and out it comes, delightfully crystal clear. As much as you want.
Unfortunately, 1.5 billion people in the world can’t do that – at least with anything that is clean and delightfully crystal clear.
However, drinking water isn’t the point.
It takes a thousand tons of water to produce one ton of wheat. Think about that the next time you go to the supermarket. That one pound bag of flour represents a thousand pounds of water.
You know where water comes from. EVERYONE knows where water comes from. You turn a faucet and out it comes, delightfully crystal clear. As much as you want.
Unfortunately, 1.5 billion people in the world can’t do that – at least with anything that is clean and delightfully crystal clear.
However, drinking water isn’t the point.
It takes a thousand tons of water to produce one ton of wheat. Think about that the next time you go to the supermarket. That one pound bag of flour represents a thousand pounds of water.
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Posted in Environment, Society on Jun 6th, 2006
I was going to lash out at France.
No. Really.
I was going to talk about hypocrisy. Shortsightedness. Pandering.
Good stuff.
But, the Reading power station in North Tel Aviv is starting up, so I thought that I’d talk about THAT.
Don’t scratch your head so hard. Your hair will fall out.
We’ve been having power outages all over Israel, because the Israel Electric Company just doesn’t have enough spare capacity to meet demand. So, they’ve petitioned the government to reopen the Reading power plant.
I was going to lash out at France.
No. Really.
I was going to talk about hypocrisy. Shortsightedness. Pandering.
Good stuff.
But, the Reading power station in North Tel Aviv is starting up, so I thought that I’d talk about THAT.
Don’t scratch your head so hard. Your hair will fall out.
We’ve been having power outages all over Israel, because the Israel Electric Company just doesn’t have enough spare capacity to meet demand. So, they’ve petitioned the government to reopen the Reading power plant.
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