Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "DW Documentary" channel.

Absolutely. This isn't the first of these I have seen about water. I'm in Australia and the one they did a while back abut our issues showed stuff most Australians don't know about. The issue about corporations just rolling over the top of people and taking whatever they want is about to explode across the world. When politicians refuse to do the right thing by society and do nothing but pander to a wealthy few IT NEVER WORKS OUT WELL.
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@bhadanisandip You are right on track. I'm an engineer and have been trying to tell people that it won't be 1 technology in our energy future it will be a range of technologies where we use better options. There will be all sorts of mixtures of tech because each country will have its own resources to draw upon.
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Its not so much that plants are inefficient at converting solar energy into bio-energy its just that they can't do it as fast as we are consuming energy. And out energy consumption at the moment is simply a bit more than the biosphere can produce its orders of magnitude. Your quite rightly point out the planet took millions of years to store up all that fossil fuel and we dug it up and burned a giant pile of it in less than 200years. There's a recent hypothesis that tries to answer the Fermi Paradox, which says there should be life everywhere we look in the universe and we just don't see it (actually hear it via radio waves). The idea is that as societies grow technologically they start to consume more and more energy per capita. We see this in the difference between developed and undeveloped nations. There is a real possibility that the reason we do not see other species is that they either had a technological burst and consumed all of their energy resources or they got way more efficient with those resources and stopped wasting energy transmitting in every direction. One way or another we must reduce our energy usage or raise the efficiency or both. Otherwise we need to keep over 5 Billion people in poverty and the problem there is we have been ramming Western Values and culture down their throats for 50+ years.
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@DarthObscurity Are you referring to Germany where they turned off the nuclear power stations instead of the coal power stations? Because that didn't make sense to anyone with a functioning brain. The aim was to reduce emissions and the increased them.
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I'm in Australia and PWC, KMPG and EY have all been named with respect to auditing and allowing multinational companies to avoid BILLIONS (with a 'B') to go untaxed via places in Europe. Its the same companies doing the same stuff all across the world and countries Luxembourg, Ireland and Holland are right in the middle of it acting as the money conduits.
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We have the same problem here in Australia, except its industrial nut farms. Nut trees need water no matter what the conditions are. Because we now how a commercial water market, that DW actually covered really well, the industrial nut farms can simply outbid all the other farmers. This story is so painful to watch, because I know from our problems how much damage this is doing. I've also seen similar stories about the industrial farming in Southern California where they are having similar problems draining the Southern California aquafer. Its starting to draw in salt water from the ocean.
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