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In its home-page on World Water Day, 2021, the United Nations pointed out the following facts:
Today, 1 in 3 people live without safe drinking water.
By 2050, up to 5.7 billion people could be living in areas where water is scarce for at least one month a year.
Climate-resilient water supply and sanitation could save the lives of more than 360,000 infants every year.
If we limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, we could cut climate-induced water stress by up to 50%.
Extreme weather has caused more than 90% of major disasters over the last decade.
By 2040, global energy demand is projected to increase by over 25% and water demand is expected to increase by more than 50%.
Clearly, water is a crucial resource, and the future well-being of human society depends on how well we manage our global supply of fresh water. This will require a high level of international cooperation and social justice.
Maude Barlow: water as a human right
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv by a helicopter because anti-government protesters blocked all the roads around it.
I read the news – invasion of Iraq! twentieth anniversary! – and struggle to transcend the abstraction of my remorse. A million killed? Half a million? The mortality stats vary depending on the source’s politics.
But beyond the numbers looms an indifference that defines what is called “news.”
“Today, 20 years after the president ordered the airstrikes that rained down on Baghdad on the night of March 20, 2003, the war is widely seen in Washington’s power centers as a lesson in failed policymaking, one deeply absorbed if not thoroughly learned.”
Just reading those words – a paragraph in a New York Times analysis of the invasion, two decades later – instantly turns a citizen into a spectator. A lesson of failed policymaking! We’re talking about murdering children, for God’s sake, annihilating a social structure, driving millions of people out of their homes and shattering their lives. Somehow the term “failed policymaking” doesn’t do it justice.
Householder and an associate face up to 20 years in a VERY rare instance of a corrupt official actually being convicted of selling the government to a corporation—and an atomic one at that.
We briefly discuss the crucial Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, where the Democratic party as usual appears fast asleep.
FRANK KNAPP of Businesses for Democracy tells us how his sustainable cohorts are fighting for the right to vote and other basics of a free society.
Then WENDI LEDERMAN introduces us to MAYA VAN ROSSUM whose Green Amendment proposes the revolutionary strategy of appending to state constitutions the core right to a clean environment.
Maya’s pathbreaking work aims to force state governments to acknowledge—UNDER THE LAW---the ability of human beings to protect their survival on a planet being brutally assaulted by corporate greed.
Maya’s strategy and successes are an inspiration and a guidepost to those working for environmental justice and global sustainability.
As hundreds of thousands, throughout Israel, joined anti-government protests, questions began to arise regarding how this movement would affect, or possibly merge, into the wider struggle against the Israeli military occupation and apartheid in Palestine.
Pro-Palestine media outlets shared, with obvious excitement, news about statements made by Hollywood celebrities, the likes of Mark Ruffalo, about the need to “sanction the new hard right-wing government of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu”.