Regulations governing the safety and content of public water supplies are much more stringent than those governing bottled water or soft drinks. If your tap water tastes funny try setting it out with the top uncovered until the solved gases escape and then drinking, bet it's better than before.
We are the most marketed-to society in the history of the planet. The marketing program that convinced us not to trust our municipal water supply but to trust a bottling company was nothing less than sheer genius. A ridiculous premise but very well executed. It relies on the fact that we are suckers for a self image that we want to project. And we'll pay twenty bucks a gallon to project it... Remember the original bottled water Evian? Spelled backwards? Naive ....
The same minds that put that plan together are making billions per year from the notion that we can control the climate. This is a tremendous undertaking because they first must convince us that it's broken, actually that it will be, and only they have the means to prevent catastrophe. This they have almost accomplished because it's now very politically correct and cool to accept this premise. So much so that anyone who doesn't accept it is to be berated and belittled with holocaust terms like "Denier" (very tolerant and free speech like). Then they must convince us that it's our fault! In order to do this they must convince us that the "Medieval Warm Period" and similar spontaneous and extended climate change events should not be taken into consideration, because that one inconvenient truth (heh heh) puts the whole theory to question since the industrial revolution wouldn't happen for 600 years. And that natural events like the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, and Mt. St. Helens, which together dumped more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than the first one hundred years of industrial revolution combined, and did it in the space of hours rather than decades is to be excluded from the studies.Why? because they didn't bring about the predicted catastrophic event, the earth adjusted to the event and cleaned it up. We didn't cause it and we couldn't fix it...hard to turn a profit on that.
Given the enormous profit generated by selling us preposterous ideas why wouldn't they use fear of local municipal water to distract us from the real purpose which is to sell us a resource we already own. The only thing more profitable would to be selling "carbon dioxide credits", at least they don't contribute to landfill.
We should definitely hold corporations, countries, mankind as a whole accountable for pollution, cleaning up each and every mess they make, and being good stewards of the private resources they use when the good of the public is affected. I love this planet and think we should be very protective of our resources. I don't, however, think we should check our critical thinking skills at the door and let the next wave of charlatan empty our wallets and restrict our freedom. JMHO |