Siachen glacier melting fast due to military activity: study

[OhioChick]

Saturday, December 30, 2006


Islamabad, Dec 30: Siachen glacier has been melting alarmingly more due to military activity of India and Pakistan than global warming, a new study has said.

Siachen glacier was rapidly melting because of the ongoing military activity at the highest flashpoint of the world, according to the study conducted by Arshad H Abbasi, a consultant for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

"Siachen is weeping, tomorrow the world will cry," the excerpts of the study, pubished in the local daily The News, say.

Siachen is the longest glacier in the non-polar regions from where the Nubara river originates and is a source of the Indus river in Pakistan which caters to 75 per cent of its irrigational requirements.
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=345084&sid=ENV&ssid=26

[NMDemDist2]

1. you think the oil wars are bad, fresh water wars will top them all n/t

[HereSince1628]

2. Control of a huge aquifer is rumored to be the reason the BEFEE

bought the giant land holding in South America...

Although it is unfair to hold an entire state responsible for the stupid remarks of a few, I must say there would be a certain satisfaction in telling Texans to go drink from their oil wells. I've never gotten over being told to go freeze in the dark back in the oil embargo days of the 70's. And I have the feeling Arbusto could well have been at the root of that little F**k the Yankees meme.

[NMDemDist2]

3. yup. the Peruvian adventure didn't make sense til I read it was sitting

on that huge reservoir of fresh water

:think:

[havocmom]

5. Did ya ever see the movie 'Water'? Oil company re-opens old well

for photo shoot and ends up hitting water. Not just any water, but good mineral water. The young turk goes to the board room of the oil company and tries to sell the idea of keeping the rig pumping. CEO (played by Fred Gwynn) reminds him they 'are in the OIL business'. Young man hauls out a can of oil and reminds them what it sells for. Then he hauls out a bottle of water with a nice label and tells them what THAT sells for. CEO announces they are now in the WATER business.

Movie was made some time ago but oh so prescient.

We think we need oil. We actually do need water. Humans were around a long time before they found uses for oil. We are made up of water.

Coming water wars will be the end of freedom. There is a reason huge corporations have been gobbling up water rights.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Yep! And don't look now, but...

... images in our rear view mirror may be closer than they appear. It's not going to be long.

[NotGivingUp]

6. k&r !

[formercia]

7. Some day, they will find a way

to make you pay

for the air you breathe.


air and water are public resources and should be used for the benefit of all, not to make a profit.