A Sobering Look at Water
A new full-length documentary, Flow, shows how privatization of water will only add to its scarcity: click here
Access to water, of course, is the most basic of human rights. Without the right to water, there is no right to life.
Sounds obvious? Well, then why are the filmmakers pushing for the United Nations to put a Right to Water into its charter of basic human rights (Article 31)? Seems the U.N. forgot this previously.
Oops.
From the site's review:
"Can Anyone Really Own Water?"
Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the
planet. The movie,'FLOW' confronts the disturbing reality that our
crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century -- The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
Beyond identifying the problem, 'FLOW' also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century -- The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
Beyond identifying the problem, 'FLOW' also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
Water, clean water, is not free, that is true. But can we fulfill a basic human right and still produce enough revenues to support water purification and sewage needs? Why not provide the minimum personal need, plus, say 10%, and then charge for higher use, and charge an increasing rate per gallon for even heavier use,a progressive rate for water? Sounds simple...
And yet...
Cuba Endorses Land Ownership
Cuba
is liberalizing after some 50 years of Castro rule. They are allowing
the buying and selling of land. Sound great! There will now be...golf
courses.
http://www.nytimes. com/2011/ 11/04/world/ americas/ cubans-can- buy-and-sell- property- government- says.html? _r=2
Wait, what ? A neo-colonialist change, or a potential for Land Value Tax reform?
http://www.nytimes. com/2011/ 11/04/world/ americas/ cubans-can- buy-and-sell- property- government- says.html? _r=2
Wait, what ? A neo-colonialist change, or a potential for Land Value Tax reform?
The Global Warming Debate Heats Up
This
is an economics newsletter, not a geological, climate, or even a
science newsletter. Nevertheless, we do deal with ways to mitigate the
use and
abuse
of
natural resources here, and it's pretty hard to do that without taking
some position on the environment itself - otherwise, what are the
natural resources being abused? The writer is certainly not of the
position stated in Genesis that:
Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over
all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
To summarize: Things are going to get bad, and are more likely to get worse then the average predictions, than to get better.
Preview: There is a major new movie on Land Value Capture reform about to be released online and in select theaters. I don't have the permanent URL for the full movie yet, but I've seen it and it's a wonderful, engaging and eye-opening 40 minute movie from down under. You can watch the preview here: http://realestate4ransom.com/film/
As the film says, it's fun (and important) to bash the banks and hold them accountable, but if you really want to get to the root of the problem, you need to talk about the basis for it: speculation on Land.
Scott Baker - Op Ed News Blogger/Senior Editor; Huffington Post Blogger; Author; President: Common Ground -
NYC; NY State Coordinator: Public Banking Institute
Petitions:
-- Set up a Land Value Tax & untax ALL productive activities to make California Healthy, Wealthy, and Prosperous
-- Replace Property Tax with Ground Rent in New York State
-- Set up a State Bank For Florida
-- California Dreaming: Set up a State Bank with abundant CAFR funds
-- Complete the East Side Manhattan Greenway from 38-61 Streets and save bikers, help the environment, and clear up traffic
-- Tax Vacant & Unused Land to Return its value to the Community
-- Untax Production and Wages while taxing the use/abuse of natural resources. Polluters pay while workers and entrepreneurs profit from true production
-- Close New York State's budget Gap with money from its own agencies by setting up a State Bank
-- Defend the Clean Air Act
- - Produce debt-free United States Notes
Petitions:
-- Set up a Land Value Tax & untax ALL productive activities to make California Healthy, Wealthy, and Prosperous
-- Replace Property Tax with Ground Rent in New York State
-- Set up a State Bank For Florida
-- California Dreaming: Set up a State Bank with abundant CAFR funds
-- Complete the East Side Manhattan Greenway from 38-61 Streets and save bikers, help the environment, and clear up traffic
-- Tax Vacant & Unused Land to Return its value to the Community
-- Untax Production and Wages while taxing the use/abuse of natural resources. Polluters pay while workers and entrepreneurs profit from true production
-- Close New York State's budget Gap with money from its own agencies by setting up a State Bank
-- Defend the Clean Air Act
- - Produce debt-free United States Notes
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