Cape Town's water apocalypse
Tell Coca-Cola: help solve Cape Town's water apocalypse!
Water is a human right -- but millions of people in Cape Town are days away from running out of it -- the first major city facing this existential crisis! One major player is keeping quiet: Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola's water consumption in South Africa is massive: it produces almost 40 different soft drinks and bottled water, and has a huge stake in producing beer. But beyond vague promises to reduce consumption and protect water sources, the company hasn't accepted any responsibility to ensure residents have access to water when Day Zero arrives.
12 April 2018 is Day Zero, when Cape Town’s 4 million residents are expected to be without water service in their homes for at least 150 days. Three years of drought, and poor management and planning by national and local governments have led to this point. Bottled water companies stand ready to profit from this human and ecological disaster.
We've seen this pattern before, all over the world: the human right to water for sale. From Flint, Michigan, to Puerto Rico, access to the most basic necessity of life -- clean, safe water -- is controlled by bottled water companies. In El Salvador, Mexico, and India, Coca-Cola has been accused of draining local wells dry and forcing local residents to buy bottled water.
Globally, Coca-Cola used over 300 billion liters of water in 2016. To satisfy its needs, the company extracts hidden groundwater collected over hundreds of years. Let’s tell Coca-Cola that Cape Town’s groundwater is a national asset that belongs to all South Africans -- and can't be sold in times of crisis:
Our community has been fighting greedy corporations that exploit the world's natural resources and put profits before sustainability. But now we can tell Coca-Cola to rise up to this challenge, and earn its beloved status when South Africans need it the most.
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With hope and determination,
Meetali, Diego, Joseph, and the rest of the Avaaz team
More information:
Cape Town's water crisis (CNN)
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/01/africa/gallery/cape-town-drought-water-restrictions/index.html
Cape Town to set up disaster operations HQ for water crisis (AP)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cape-town-set-disaster-operations-hq-water-crisis-5266...
Cape Town's 'Day Zero' Looms as Dam Levels Drop (EcoWatch)
https://www.ecowatch.com/cape-town-water-crisis-day-zero-2530228781.html
Wikipedia - Capetown water crisis
[Attribution](By Discott - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65821347)
That's when you put communists in charge. No pity, it's the populations own fault.
Righton, though it seems strange as it is certainly a well meaning system, especially in contrast to Capitalism. Communism implies caring for all while Capitalism is basically the fittest rule.
Capitalism feeds people and Communism killed dozens of million people within less than a century. I'd say Communism implies murdering everyone who doen't consent. That's why I personally rather take my chances in the arena survival.
If you believe Communism has killed more people than Capitalism then I'd suggest some alternate reading.
Capitalism has been behind almost all atrocities, including the communising of the Soviet Union and China.
Capitalism has been behind the replacement of almost every legitimate government on every continent with illegitimate factions, sustained with the objective of undermining any force which competes with US political and world domination objectives. These include Asia and particularly East Asia, Africa, South America, the Middle East and even Europe.
I am no communist but I certainly abhor the way in which Capitalists have applied the maxim "All for us and nothing for anyone else" meaning their cosy group rather than capitalists at large.
Both systems have been grossly misused but Capitalism's misuse has been more carefully secreted from the public eye as the sheeple have been manipulated via the most powerful of all weapons the world has ever seen, being modern media, in the form of radio, television the Internet and social media.
Both systems have been misused by the same entities which manipulate governments and world powers, primarily through debt slavery.
Here are some sources of note
So, it is Capitalisms fault that they allowed Communsits to run into their own knife? Not so sure about that.
I am currently translating the book Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks as a little project here on steemit and I do have to say, I am absolutely shocked about the theoretic background of collectivism. The political left is nothing but insane and they follow an insane set of rules and "truths" and constantly try to force it on others.
Even if you're not interested in changing your mind about the political left, I recommend you to read the book, because it is A) comprehensive and B) at least at the end you know the objections against Communism and collectivism in general.
You can find it as PDF here and I believe there is also an audio book on YouTube.
Feel free to engage in a discussion about it with me;-)
You send me some pertinent commentary of your own on the sources I referred you to and I will consider reading the book.
You might say that I extol the precepts taught by the Master, wherever they are to be found.
I still favour capitalism over most leftist thinking but not the way it has been applied. The essence of Capitalism needs to be tempered with compassion and understanding and a greater commitment to service.
A man considered to be the greatest Industrialist and possibly Capitalist is Andrew Carnegie said some relevant things :
Sadly his example and exhortations fell on deaf ears and blind eyes.
Thanks for the reply. Carnegie surely wasn't wrong. But Communists wouldn't even allow him to use his talent and amass a fortune, even is he would give it away at the end. That's the tragedy.
Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of capitalism as well. But what choice do we have? All collectivism always ends in misery for everyone. With freedom and capitalism on the other hand, you and everyone else can adapt.
And one more thing: If I had to chose between freedom and democracy, I would always chose freedom. Because in a democracy, it can happen that you are on the minority side your whole life. With freedom on the other hand, you are the one who decides for yourself. That's why I think democracy is important, but freedom is essential.
Political ideologies are not the point here, although part of the cause is politics. The issue is that people in Cape Town (and elsewhere in the world) are very interested in living for now without a care for the future. They live under the assumption that the government will provide - which is inherently incorrect. People forget that they have a responsibility to provide for themselves and their family and put aside some for the future. This has not been done by many people and certainly their elected officials.
It is a sad outcome for the lovely people of Africa; however, we can expect this and similar crises to occur in many cities around the world.
Now the government and people will have to pay an organisation, sic Coca-Cola, that has invested significantly to extract resources, process them and set up logistics for delivery. The people and government could have done the same - but chose not to do this in favour of less productive programs of expenditure.
Signed... They're calling this a "natural disaster", but there's nothing natural about it... They created this disaster by ignoring the experts that warned them about this, the city could've supplemented the main water supply with the many alternative sources available more than ten years ago.
They allowed this to happen so that they can force their by-laws on us and also force us to accept their water meters, which is ironically faulty and causing people to experience a "day zero" situation where they are without water for up to five days!!!
Thanks for spreading the word
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Thanks and likewise.
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hope coca-cola will do something wise about this issue, water is the second name of life and we can't waste water even we should use it properly this is not for misuse.
Signed! Great work.
I think it's just a warning for Global. I am very shocked how we survive and our nature??? Specially I'm worried about our next generation, our child because they are most valuable in our life. If we think, our child has no water for drinking!!! How are you tolerate this situation. So request to all, please save water from every drop.....
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There is no water problem. There is a salt problem. Humans think we're so smart and yet we can't even figure out how to desalinate seawater?
#DayZero
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