importing water

IMPORTING WATER


While all our good herders are getting a bit more desperate, hitting us with staff’s and threatening to release the hounds, all is well, do not panic you pathetic lemmings, get back from the gate, you have thirty more years of oil, here is a bit more Fun Filled Facts to remind you why you shouldn’t listen to anyone that tells you paranoia is bad. 40% of the global water consumption is disguised as food imports ( from “The World In 2050”- not much in the way on new news but a decent read ). Because so many countries have so many people but have too little water to grow their own food ( a fact that the financial asswhores cover with propaganda such as “only government corruption stops all countries from being food independent ), it is cheaper to buy what is needed. Canals, irrigated fields, dams. Much cheaper to just buy the food grown elsewhere. If, and this is a big if, they could even get enough rainfall or shrinking glacier runoff. And, another fear filled factoid, the number of acres globally that depends solely on irrigation has doubled in the last fifty years. Now, take the two above mentioned facts and combine it with 2008 and the huge surge in grain prices. Which was caused primarily by flooding in the Midwest here in the good ol USA. The same place that is turning all its corn into gasoline.

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Flooding in the Midwest. Hmmm. Where have I heard about that before. Oh, yeh, I got it! The same thing that is happening right friggin now. Considering that the last time our grain imports sagged the grain prices doubled, added to oil exporting countries already in revolt because food prices were too high BEFORE this round of bad weather, add a dash of our southern draught and the already precarious state of the big aquifer there ( the northern end recharges pretty good but the frac oil companies have big plans to pollute it ), and I wonder if another global surge in prices is in the works. Ya think? Oh, don’t forget Saudi Arabian oil in serious decline. Oil feeds the world. We turn it into grain and use it to transport grain to most other places. And our oil supply is down 20% in five years, as bad weather repeatedly diminishes our crop output. So far, drawing down our reserves has worked to cushion this, but those reserves are now gone ( hmmm. Where have I heard this before? Oh yeh, we’ve started drawing down our petroleum reserves so our yuppie scum SUV drivers can save a whopping twenty cents a gallon. Seriously? Are we that desperate for a few more weeks of slowing the economic downfall that we are willing to throw away a petroleum reserve that will come in mighty handy as we fight a rear guard action withdrawing our military globally in just a few short years? ). Am I predicting the world wide famine? Of course not. I can’t predict how many of my supposedly loyal minions have put me on the top of their enemies list ( I can safely bet its pretty high, but I just can’t say how many ), so I can’t time the weather and politics. But, considering the problems already with just milder symptoms, do you want to bet against the trend? William Gibson-“The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed”.

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I might panic about a lot, but it’s the convergence of all the little things one shouldn’t blow out of proportion that will kick our ass. You think as the world starves and our food monopolies cashes in that there will be any surplus allowed to our own citizens to stockpile? Get your subsidized ( by oil and taxpayers ) grain now, while you can.

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Crap, it’s hard making a full length article today. I worked half a day at work for the holiday, and of course every single donator was trying to kill me with kindness, doubling the amount even for a Monday. I remember back in the day before the financial crisis really hit, no one was desperate and it was business as usual and donations were light. It took one hour and fifteen minutes from start to unloaded and ready for the next day. Now it takes twice as long and then I have to clock out, wait an hour, clock back in and do it for another hour and a half ( the produce run needs to be sorted, stored and discarded ). I’m not a summer and heat kind of guy anymore. Bring back fall already. Ninety degrees and manual labor suck. Ah, well, we should all have the problem of job security awhile longer. And speaking of soul sucking heat, I really think this earth tube experiment is turning into a FrankenDakin’s monster. I was cooling the trailer down better at night by just leaving all the vents open. I know if I installed an electric fan I would get better results, but that opens the can of worms with sustainability and expanding my panels/batteries. The tube was supposed to be a passive system. Which means I have to keep digging and go with a real underground shelter ( the covered pit is bare earth walls and only suitable for dire emergency living due to moisture and bugs-blech! ).

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As I said, Saturday I treated myself to Bugger King in the morning, turning a lard sandwich into all day energy to work on the tube. I hadn’t eaten out in about two months so I didn’t feel bad spending three bucks ( I had a coffee also ). At first I had made the mistake of going into McCrackheads. Do these people manage a corporation through their colon? You go up to the counter, if you can, because it is all one giant cluster. The guys in line mingle with the guys already ordered but waiting for delivery and in-between kids dart about getting drink refills. It is one square area with no direction, rhyme or reason. I don’t know who is in line or where I’m supposed to wait. And I’m not real fond of crowds and don’t like being surrounded on all sides. It makes my skin crawl. BK has the cattle chute, the guard rails leading up to the registers. There is no mistaking your place and the rails keep others away from you. I mean, McDoockies has bad enough food as it is, some of it guaranteed to clean out my intestines faster than usually is considered safe. Why make actually spending your money on that poison so difficult? If I was a shareholder I’d be asking some questions, like why is this CEO actually paid? This consultation was free, but feel free to send me a check ( NO free food coupons-have you guys heard anything I said? ).

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