Warning: Hippy-fodder to follow...
Apologies in advance.
Mr_Clifford wrote:Serously though, do people really think that the dams aren't full of fish, birds and other animals running (or swimming) around defecating in it anyway.
All wastes are elegantly processed and absorbed by a perfectly designed ecological system.
Dang, you can even run an aquarium indefinitely if you really know what you're doing.
Mr_Clifford wrote:The Earth has been recycling water since the beginning of time
Exactly.
We haven't.
Herein lies my beef. We dump maybe 100 000 foreign, synthesised and toxic chemicals into our waste-system.
The evaporation of pure water from the ocean which finds its way into the river systems and water tables, along with the natural dilution and subsequent processing of waste in the sea, estuaries etc, mean a safer-quality drinking water than technology-based solutions can produce, at least in "quantity".
Water has its memory wiped when it evaporates, and "learns" from its journey downstream, and through underground waterways and living systems.
Few have noticed, but water doesn't have the cleaning power it used to; it's not as "hungry to learn", as it should be.
All things being equal, one has to use more detergent in the wash nowadays, for example.
The more eager it is to learn, the more useful it is in the body, too, partly 'cause it's already learned so much.
Just as in life, the water that's learned much (the most valuable) is hungriest, and will suck impurities best.
If you allow water to trickle down a sloped,
clean piece of glass, you'll notice it still doesn't run straight.
It's literally seeking knowledge. The hungrier it is, the wider the area it'll meander.
Of course, the synthetic nature of the impurities absorbed, the storage in dams (think dead, anaerobic etc.), addition of chemicals for protection of under-city plumbing, taste and the like, and its delivery under pressure all erase/use up/saturate the water's hunger, memory and potential.
It's lifeless. Almost.
Now, picture taking this lifeless water and squashing the crap out of it through reverse osmosis units.
Whatever life
was there...
How about the medical drugs all patients pee every day?
Then there're the pills. Any public portable dunny worker can tell you about them; most are passed through looking almost as-new, with stamped labels still legible.
We don't see 'em, but the porta-potty blokes know the score; they get stopped by the wire grids they use to keep other human crap(!) out.
If one considers the fact that most women are on the pill 28 days a month, it gets real scary.
This is partly why fish and animal life in the Thames are suffering infertility problems and those of a certain sex being way out of proportion in many populations.
I say "partly" because the other 100 000 chemicals have effects in all areas of biology.
Mercury, for instance, shuts down hormone production and use.
As there are hundreds of hormones in us, and because they're critically involved in almost every processs of the body, literally hundreds of diseases and perhaps thousands of symptoms are possible.
I should know, as I've had to live with multiple heavy-metal poisonings.
Since the 80's I've been aware of the fact that Britain's water table is in fact measurably polluted by medical drugs.
The average pom consumes 22 000 tables in his lifetime (mostly headache and pain-relief).
Multiply that by the population and you see the problem
So, in my somewhat informed ('been poisoned my whole life, studying aquaristics and nature since age 3 etc), but politically incorrect opinion, the debate has conveniently side-stepped all the issues I've mentioned, and then some.
It all comes back to my, again, informed but unpopular opinion that if you build a society upon lies and half-truths, ignoring hard-earned, old-school wisdom, you's gonna pay the price.
Let's face it, if you
really explore conventional wisdom with a passion, you'll find it ain't wisdom at all; it's lies.
Mr_Clifford wrote:Not having a go at you jgest. Just venting about the mis-information and scare-mongering that the media feeds us.
If they themselves knew the truth they could
really scare us.
