So, today I was watching a very optimistic presentation on TED (one I had viewed a couple years ago) regarding market incentives to keep water instream. Rob Harmon gives a clear/simple approach for laymen.
Now, by no way am I suggesting that the end of the world is imminent, but can you believe this bullshit of a comment?
herbert tackmann:
Mar 31 2011: Your all wet,David.In W W 2 Battleships etc,desalinated the sea (salt) water,and it was made drinkable.Google it and learn.So there is enough water to drink for the human race,forever.Three quarters of the earth is quite enough.Agriculturally,what is needed for growth of plants can be added to the water,and by the use of irregation fed to them. Plants have been grown in long plastic tubes,indoors for years,by adding same.Google it,learn.Now cost,as a prototype is quite costly vs. the market model,so too an Industrial nation the USA,can go to Mars,can too desalinate ocean water,on a level or in a way to make it inexpensive.The MEDIA is NOT letting us know this as it is owned by the Corporate Powers.So too ,we have NOW cars that run on water(High Tech) little steam engines 120 mph.Another well buried secret.See David,YOU believe what the Newspapers and the TV tell you,..DON"T,they LIE.To make us panic and vote on ,and PAY for things not needed High Pressure Desalination is NOT,NOT,NOT,costly if done on a mass scale.But I ask you what if they did this,and bottled water does a nose dive?They are charging 10,15,times their cost,sorry money comes way before the TRUTH,or whats "good" for us "the masses".Also,cars that run on water?Oil.does a nose dive,sorry,not in our lifetimes.In the future as we start to probe space,and the Earth becomes "Home Base" maybe by then we will just share what's ours already.BUT I truly doubt it,man seems to be to greedy an animal.Maybe like the film."The Day the Earth Stood Still".Other life forms will come here and cancel us out.They DON'T want us ruining the universe,like we ruined the Earth,which was just fine before we got here.We are being used.
This is why I am worried for our freshwater resources. People like this with "all the answers". All of the answers from Goggle, no less! My question to him is why is Herbert not in the water industry? He would make an absolute killing AND be revered worldwide like Salk & Sabin (although even these great protectors of humanity are even being ostracized now - by the same "intellectuals" as Mr. Herbert Tackmann.) Please, continue the "media / fear-mongering" approach instead of dealing with issues head-on, Herbert. Nothin' like kickin' the can down the road for future generations to deal with. Who knows, maybe his gene pool is at a dead-end. One can only hope.
