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Water There is no dimension of our human existence, or our social or physical world, that is or can be left pristine and undisturbed by the machinations of profit, including the basic physical element of water. There is presently a water shortage around the world. This shortage is killing millions of people a year, and there are huge projected further shortages (as explored during World Water Week). The water shortages are forecast to significantly worsen far faster than originally thought, causing disruptions, perhaps severe, in global security and economic stability, even beyond their present human toll and other catastrophic social and economic consequences. As with every other social problem we face, it is the normal operation of capitalism that is largely responsible, if not the actual root cause. In this case, the economic imperative to sell, sell, sell that capitalism forces on companies lest they be "out-competed" and ultimately go out of business, forces a constant, pathological industrial expansion on them. In other words, companies are forced to continually build and operate new factories and other facilities, or otherwise expand their operations, in order to try and successfully compete against other companies. This unyielding industrial expansion requires colossal quantities of water! Hence, it is a large part of the reason for the global water shortage. Of course, in a Cooperative society, there would be no companies or corporations as we understand them today, and economic activity would occur based only one the simple, straightforward, and understandable standard of human need, not blind competition! Therefore, every pathological and counterproductive economic pattern dictated by competition--like the need to sell, sell, sell, and expand, expand, expand--would be rendered irrelevant, and would simply not happen. Goodbye, water shortages! (And "Goodbye" to the many artifical shortages of all kinds, that the money-and-profit system engenders.) |
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