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Intel Sucks Up Water Amid Drought In China
An anonymous reader sends along a Bloomberg piece on Intel and the coming water wars. "Intel is going head-to-head with businesses like Coca-Cola to swallow up scarce water resources in the developing world. According a 2009 report ... 2.4 billion of the world's population lives in 'water-stressed' countries such as China and India. Chip fabrication plants in those countries, as well factories such as the soft drink giant's bottling plants, are swallowing up scarce resources needed by the 1.6 billion people who rely on water for farming. ... Li Haifeng, vice president of sewage treatment company Beijing Enterprises Water Group, told Bloomberg, 'Wars may start over the scarcity of water.' China's 1.33 billion citizens each have 2,117 cubic meters of water available to them per year.... In the US, consumers can count on as much as 9,943 cubic meters."
It wasn't a debate. You simply preach your pet vision of the saviour of humanity that will usher is into paradise on Earth.
Well, forgive me for being a little more pragmatic...
One that hath name thou can not otter
Because there's obviously a middle ground that you are too retarded to see.
The left has defined the political continuum? Seriously? I think you're either a liar or very much deluded. You go on to make a bigger fool of yourself in your additional sentences.
Blar.