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Groundwater is so important. It's part of a system we do it fully understand. In our area, the groundwater where the wells draw from have become contaminated wi

Groundwater is so important. It's part of a system we do it fully understand. In our area, the groundwater where the wells draw from have become contaminated with saltwater because the freshwater was too low, and the saltwater seeped in and we no longer have a key way of providing water to the community. Many people including myself got sick and had to start buying water, something that was enjoyed by countless previous generations. Fixing it isn't straightforward either, it would take decades to fix, according to the hydrologists. 37% percent of people reply on groundwater as a source, and I wonder how many plants and animals in the system do as well. If only we could think of the earths resources as a single body or systemthat we share, I think we could make some steps. I feel like we are still at the stage where collectively we are selling our kidneys for iPads, and our lungs(forests)for gas money and think we'll still be able to function as well when the vital organs are gone.

imtringued 5y ago
"But man, unlike the plant, cannot remain satisfied with part of the earth; he needs the whole; every individual needs the whole undivided earth. Nations living in valleys or islands, or shut off by tariff - barriers, languish and become extinct. Trading nations, on the other hand, that spice their blood with all the products of the earth, remain vigorous and populate the world. The bodily and spiritual needs of men put out roots in every square foot of the earth's surface, embracing the globe as with the arms of an octopus. Man needs the fruits of the tropics, of the temperate zones and of the north; and for his health he needs the air of the mountains, the sea and desert. To stimulate his mind and enrich his experience he needs intercourse with all the nations of the earth. He even needs the gods of other nations as objects with which to compare his own religion. The whole globe in splendid flight around the sun is a part, an organ, of every individual man. How, then, can we suffer individual men to confiscate for themselves parts of the earth as their exclusive property, to erect barriers and with the help of watchdogs and trained slaves to keep us away from parts of the earth, from parts of ourselves - to tear, as it were, whole limbs from our bodies? Is not such a proceeding equivalent to self-mutilation?" page 54 of https://www.naturalmoney.org/NaturalEconomicOrder.pdf https://www.naturalmoney.org/NaturalEconomicOrder.pdf
edmcnulty101 5y ago
What area are you?

imtringued 5y ago

"But man, unlike the plant, cannot remain satisfied with part of the earth; he needs the whole; every individual needs the whole undivided earth. Nations living in valleys or islands, or shut off by tariff - barriers, languish and become extinct. Trading nations, on the other hand, that spice their blood with all the products of the earth, remain vigorous and populate the world. The bodily and spiritual needs of men put out roots in every square foot of the earth's surface, embracing the globe as with the arms of an octopus. Man needs the fruits of the tropics, of the temperate zones and of the north; and for his health he needs the air of the mountains, the sea and desert. To stimulate his mind and enrich his experience he needs intercourse with all the nations of the earth. He even needs the gods of other nations as objects with which to compare his own religion. The whole globe in splendid flight around the sun is a part, an organ, of every individual man. How, then, can we suffer individual men to confiscate for themselves parts of the earth as their exclusive property, to erect barriers and with the help of watchdogs and trained slaves to keep us away from parts of the earth, from parts of ourselves - to tear, as it were, whole limbs from our bodies? Is not such a proceeding equivalent to self-mutilation?" page 54 of https://www.naturalmoney.org/NaturalEconomicOrder.pdf https://www.naturalmoney.org/NaturalEconomicOrder.pdf

edmcnulty101 5y ago

What area are you?