Now I want to make it clear I love the planet and the environment and I believe that it is our God given responsibility to take care of this planet that we have been trusted with by the Almighty. However, some people who claim to be environmentalists are more worried about controlling people's lives than the environment. Now you can believe anything you like. I really don't care but in some aspects people are being lied to. Normally, I am going to try to not get to political on this blog, but I do need to speak out about moral issues from time to time and I believe that lying is immoral.
Here is my big problem. I went to a public funded water center and saw a publicly funded TV show that had the same lie, and I don't think the tax payers should be paying for lies. Here it is. I can't remember the exact number, but I think the argument went something like this: Ninety-eight percent of our water is either in our oceans or ice at the poles or locked under ground. Only 2% percent of the water on Earth is the fresh water we need to survive and so we have to be very careful with it. If this were true we would be in trouble because billions of gallons of fresh water get dumped into the salty oceans every day by those cruel, evil and short-sighted rivers. I do believe in not polluting and in being careful in how we use our resources, including water, but to pretend that there are two types of water, salt water and fresh water, and that all water is either in one system or the other is just not accurate.
Here is how it works. Water from the oceans evaporates and flies up into the clouds in gas form. It eventually forms into clouds and then comes back down as rain. Some of it falls back into the sea and some of it falls onto land. The water collects into lakes and creeks that feed rivers that take it back to the ocean where much of it gets evaporated again. We call it the water cycle. Nature has the best recycling system ever. We could learn a lot from Mother Earth. The truth is that the water we drink will become the water in the ocean and the water in the ocean will become the water we drink. Also the water that was wasted when it was dropped on George Bush's head in the ice bucket challenge could some day be a drink for a girl living in Samoa. Isn't nature great? Now I am not saying that environmentalists are bad or anything, but some of them are not as honest as they should be.