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04.04.07
Water of Life
In an interview with the Zeit (in German), Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe explains his view of the world-wide water problem facing mankind. A few select quotes (translated):
- Currently, water usage grows twice as fast as the world population. In addition, water is a limited resource for which we use up fossil reservoirs even today.
- In Bejing, the water level drops half a meter every day.
- Water diminishes faster than our oil resources, but nobody talks about it.
- The enthusiasm for biological fuels is ecological madness (...) To produce one litre of ethanol, 4560 litres of water are needed. Imagine that!
- Car drivers in the rich industrial nations are being subsidized by the poorest of the world's population.
- Compared with the climate change, the water crisis is much more menacing.
- Every day, we pay one billion dollars in agricultural subsidies. For this money, we could fly each cow and bull in Europe around the world, first class.
The whole article leaves me rather thoughtful...
Posted by crenz, 04.04.07 20:56
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