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Asking the Right Question
October 23, 2007
Posted by: Carol
People are way too slow to figure out that disaster is looming. It takes a strong wake up call, usually from government, to force people into behavior that is in the public (or common) interest.
That's the moral of the story in today's New York Times on the developing water shortage in the South. As each person and business owner follows his own self interest, Georgia and Alabama are racing toward emergencies.
(Speaking of racing... Note the sad state of affairs in California as fires rage, apparently headed to break the record of destruction set in 2003.)
Pay heed to the article's final lines which contain Stone Mountain's explanation of why it was constructing a mountain of snow in the face of drought: "[We] had not been given any guidance. A lot of businesses are having to go out and ask the right question so they can do the right thing."
But what if the right question never occurs to them?
Kevin Seamon, October 29, 2007
I know how to get large amounts of water but no one wants to listen to you. I have called a bunch of the governors offices in the Southeast states and they just blow you off. The only one that did listen is a environmental guy from South Carolina. You would think that being as desperate for water as they are in the Southeast that they might take the time to listen, but that is the problem with big government. They don't want to take a few minutes of their time and listen to the public. But yet when it is a election year they come around kissing your butt trying to get your vote. Once voted in they go about doing their thing and totally ignore you. Some people might call in joking around or pranking them wasting their time but I am serious. I am from Michigan and right now we are doing pretty good for rain and have large amounts of water. In fact it might be a benifit for us here in Michigan to see the Southeast have water shortages because your business can't run without water and might close down and come up here where we have lots and lots of water. But I am trying to help you out down there and no one will give you the time of day. So if you do run out of water, blame your governors for not listening to real ways to solve your water problems. Imagine Atlanta with millions of people running out of water. It would spell disaster. They say on the Weather Channel that you only got 60 days of water left. Well it is actually less because once you reach the 2 week mark everyohe and their grandmother is going to be filling all kinds of containers with water so they have a supply of water once the taps go dry. So that will cut the supply by a number of days. Imagine all of your business shutting down because they have no water. That would put a lot of people out of work. With no work, it means now money coming in and you will have major problems when all of this happens. They are not talking about this right now on the news, but I am letting you know up front what is going to happen. So agian you might want to give your legislatures a call and tell them to get off of their rear ends and listen to people who have ideas and ways to get water. Thanks for your time, Kevin