I
as a child of the time it never rained1–
in 29-inch annual rainfall medina county texas
with a tremendous range around that mean
meaning it can be as low as 10 inches annually–
water, freshwater, fresh water is a first love
fresh water is to a great extent my serious concern
when I think about the going-on 10 billion plus
and current levels of consumption of 200,000,000
calories per capita daily
by Haves of course
(ten billion gluttonous biota
consume enormous quantities of quality water)
less abstract are the relatively barren
eroded shores of the frio
and a polluted guadalupe
including secret secreted estrogens and their metabolites
and pesticide hormonal mimics
once these freshwaters mostly added salts
now they also innocently help to plasticize the seas
and despite ubiquitous prevalence
of neoliberal capitalism “freedoms” and laws
in minds and actions of twenty-first century humanity
there is natural law
water is a right and polluting it, artificializing it,
then commodifying it–is a sin, often a serious mortal DEADLY sin
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II
clean freshwater systems
we pollute them
quality freshwaters
we plasticize them
sustainable freshwater systems
sometimes we agrilogistically suck them dry in decades
before what were big rivers can reach the seas
as they once did for eons
sustainable fresh water
sometimes it is at a premium
even in over 100-inch annually
tropical rainforests
but con dinero sucio
we can “always” get “clean” water from niagara©
well … clean, but with ingestion of some microplastic bits
and expenditure of plenty of low entropy (high entropy!!!) calories
clean water with dirty money
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III
waterworld 2021 and beyond–
mni2 … three percent fresh
disposes plastics to seas
expediting death
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1 The Time It Never Rained (tamupress.com)
2 Oglala Lakota word for water.
pbm
( 7 S’s / VV->^^ )
