Earth to run out of water by 2050

biko

Nestle doesn't believe access to water is a human right.
Also they tried to sell African mothers breast milk substitute instead of letting them breastfeed normally.

Evil men.

murpho999

mad m wrote: »

Maybe Danny Healy Rae has the answer...

The Kerry God that controls all this has it covered.

cowboyBuilder

Overpopulation is the problem - and the demand for meat.

But people will stick their heads in the sand and pretend there's no issue with overpopulation and continue to have 4+ kids.

Calibos

The issue isn't over population. That will stabilize at 10 billion by 2050 due to falling birthrates even in the developing world. The issue might be those 10 billion all wanting the level of consumption we have in the west though.

We'll have unlimited C02 free and safe power via Fusion by then and thus desalination plants will supply all the fresh water we need.

PARlance

Calibos wrote: »

The issue isn't over population. That will stabilize at 10 billion by 2050 due to falling birthrates even in the developing world. The issue might be those 10 billion all wanting the level of consumption we have in the west though.

We'll have unlimited C02 free and safe power via Fusion by then and thus desalination plants will supply all the fresh water we need.

You sound like you know what you're talking about and that's good enough for me. Panic over.

Guy:Incognito

We wont kive to 2050 anyway. Sure when we hit peak oil in the 80's and run out completely in the 90's , it wont be long before the planet stops spinning.......

Cienciano

lightspeed wrote: »

I was watching RT (Russia Today) UK earlier and they interviewed a guy from Wikileaks commenting on a few of their latest leaks.

It mentioned that Nestle had some study done that states the earth will run out of water by 2050.

“Nestle starts by pointing out that a calorie of meat requires 10 times as much water to produce as a calorie of food crops".

From what the guy from Wikileaks said, Nestle did have this report done for humanitarian reasons but mainly because they have over 80 or so brands of bottled water. Nestle had only circulating the report internally and did not publish it which of course i guess what qualifies it as leak.

http://www.inquisitr.com/3046643/world-will-run-out-of-fresh-water-in-2050-says-leaked-report-earth-faces-catastrophic-fate/

That's because they knew it was bollocks

NIMAN

Nonsense of the highest order

The_Valeyard

endacl wrote: »

On a happier note, the planet appears to have an inexhaustible supply of both bull5hit and credulity.

If only we could find a way to convert that into an energy supply. All of the worlds energy crisis would be solved.

colm_mcm

good news for those worrying about the ice caps melting.

cowboyBuilder

Calibos wrote: »

The issue isn't over population. That will stabilize at 10 billion by 2050 due to falling birthrates even in the developing world. The issue might be those 10 billion all wanting the level of consumption we have in the west though.

We'll have unlimited C02 free and safe power via Fusion by then and thus desalination plants will supply all the fresh water we need.

Falling birthrates ???

absolute twaddle ... just take a stroll into Dublin any day and tell me with a straight face there is falling birthrates...

Wibbs

biko wrote: »

Nestle doesn't believe access to water is a human right.
Also they tried to sell African mothers breast milk substitute instead of letting them breastfeed normally.

Evil men.

Yep. Utter sociopathic scumbags. Ayn Rand would be so proud.

Wibbs

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Falling birthrates ???

absolute twaddle ... just take a stroll into Dublin any day and tell me with a straight face there is falling birthrates...

Ireland doesn't have a falling birthrate, many countries in the EU do though. Replacement rates are down.

That said, my take is so? Why are people in a tizzy about it? Yes pensions are an issue, but hardly an insurmountable one. We could all start living more frugally for a start rather than posing money up the walls on new tat every quarter. When I was born there under half as many humans in the world as there are today and I don't recall riots on the street and hordes of zombies feasting on brains. We're not running out of people. If anything we should be encouraging falling birth rates and working on new social and economic mechanisms to work with that.

ScumLord

It's hard for us in our idyllic little island to appreciate the industrialisation in other countries. It's apparent when flying over parts of America where they've put massive circular farms in the middle of areas that normally couldn't support that growth. They have to pump thousands of tons of water to these places. Americans also have some horrible intensive farming.

Ireland isn't going to be running out of water any time soon and we don't need to feed loads of it to our cattle. With some proper resource management the population could double and we'd still have food left over.

Maximus Alexander

endacl wrote: »

Ever seen a picture of the earth from space? Mostly blue. Because there's not much water.

I don't mean to alarm you, but you can neither drink nor grow crops with the overwhelming majority of that.

bnt

As usual, water alarmists are conflating water of different qualities from different sources. When you talk about water used on crops and grass, that's "grey water", not the potable water that comes from municipal water treatment plants. It also ignores the way some fresh water falls out of the sky at no cost a.k.a. "rain". :rolleyes:

SEPT 23 1989

Calibos wrote: »

The issue isn't over population. That will stabilize at 10 billion by 2050 due to falling birthrates even in the developing world. The issue might be those 10 billion all wanting the level of consumption we have in the west though.

We'll have unlimited C02 free and safe power via Fusion by then and thus desalination plants will supply all the fresh water we need.

and as an island surrounded by trillions of gallons of water we could export the stuff worldwide

Irish Water

storker

recylingbin wrote: »

If we fix the wikileaks, we'll be grand.

Would that involve installing meters?

Seriously, doesn't the amount of water contained in the planet remain pretty constant? It's just a question of where it is and what form it's in...?

Maximus Alexander

storker wrote: »

Would that involve installing meters?

Seriously, doesn't the amount of water contained in the planet remain pretty constant? It's just a question of where it is and what form it's in...?

Yes, the amount of water on the planet remains constant. Which is the problem, because the amount we need keeps rising.

FatherTed

But wait I thought the water levels were going to rise because the polar ice caps are melting?

laura360

Nonsense.

ScumLord

FatherTed wrote: »

But wait I thought the water levels were going to rise because the polar ice caps are melting?

But they're in the salty ocean, they'll just turn into more sea water.

BattleCorp

ScumLord wrote: »

But they're in the salty ocean, they'll just turn into more sea water.

Desalination plants, they'll provide the fix. An expensive fix but it's a solution nonetheless.

ScumLord

BattleCorp wrote: »

Desalination plants, they'll provide the fix. An expensive fix but it's a solution nonetheless.

Maybe, we won't have to worry about it unless climate change decides to take a different direction. Apparently it's just going to rain here more. We have loads of underground water as well. So there's no indication Ireland is going to run out of fresh water any time soon. At worst our abundance of fresh natural water will make us a target for the likes of the Americans if everywhere else starts to run dry.

Duggy747

Aww, so that means we're not gonna be in a Mad Max world with outrageously deformed cars and colourful villains with notable sidekicks?

jimgoose

Was it the Bilderberg Group or Michael Noonan that put the fluoride in the water, Ted? I understand they're all on the board of Nestlé, but it is mass mind-control or global productisation of driking water they're after?

ScumLord

Duggy747 wrote: »

Aww, so that means we're not gonna be in a Mad Max world with outrageously deformed cars and colourful villains with notable sidekicks?

Well, when the European union collapses and we don't have EU regulations anymore we'll probably be driving outrageously deformed cars again.

Duggy747

ScumLord wrote: »

Well, when the European union collapses and we don't have EU regulations anymore we'll probably be driving outrageously deformed cars again.

BattleCorp

Duggy747 wrote: »

Aww, so that means we're not gonna be in a Mad Max world with outrageously deformed cars and colourful villains with notable sidekicks?

If all the women in this new Mad Max world look like this, I think I'd be happy to forgo an auld cup of water every now and again.

riffmongous

BattleCorp wrote: »

Desalination plants, they'll provide the fix. An expensive fix but it's a solution nonetheless.

They are incredibly expensive though, usually costing billions and are really only applicable for rich cities on the coast.

Lack of water supply might not be in an issue in Ireland, but in China it is already a serious problem with a serious conflict between availability of water for agriculture versus human needs, the ground water table has been steadily dropping in parts of the country due to over use of water for irrigation. The world on a whole is not going to run out of water but parts of it are going to have serious problems in the near future