At first glance, if you are not a media buff who knows camera angular vantages you would think that the visuals provided by the evening TV news depicting frantic people in queues for water supply and the irate clients in near fist fights are the first signs of chaotic Armageddon in the offing, an inevitability this world is about to plunge into. As one environmental advocacy group suggests, the immediate root of a third world war would be water — potable water and not terrorism nor nuclear arsenals. By then the survival of the fittest would the survival of the fastest — whoever runs faster with watertanks tucked on his back or gulps the most to irrigate parched throats. Water wars, of course would not be by violently drowning one’s opponents and enemies, but a la bandit style of marauding and ravaging whatever is left on the wells, pipes and faucets and to protect such great salvaged find with one’s own dear life by snuffing out the life and limbs of threatening predators, as if by extreme beastly humanity. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100725com6.html |
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