Water Exports
Sunday, October 07, 2007
From Planet Ark, Oct 8-2007:
"As the world creeps closer to irreversible global warming and goes deeper into ecological debt, why on earth, say, would the UK export 20 tonnes of mineral water to Australia and then re-import 21 tonnes," said NEF director Andrew Simms.
"And why would that wasteful trade be more the rule than the exception," he added.
(emphasis mine)
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"As the world creeps closer to irreversible global warming and goes deeper into ecological debt, why on earth, say, would the UK export 20 tonnes of mineral water to Australia and then re-import 21 tonnes," said NEF director Andrew Simms.
"And why would that wasteful trade be more the rule than the exception," he added.
(emphasis mine)
read full article here
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Thanks to the World Resources Institute Staff at Flickr for sharing a slice of blue Earth with us via their Creative Commons license. See also WRI's main page.
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