We should be encouraging the youth in our society to do exactly what Robyn is doing -- engaging in local politics, acting to protect the environment and questioning the world around her.
When it comes to water, the corporate green economy is about using the environmental crisis to further entrench corporate rights and access to scarce water resources.
We have built our economic and development policies based on a human-centric model and assumed that nature would never fail to provide or that technology would save us.
Due to increasing demand, shrinking supply and the interest of global corporations out to make a profit, water has become the 'blue gold' of the 21st century.
Posted on: Mar 4, 2002, Source: Earth Island Journal
The commodification of the world's water means that who owns water and how much they are able to charge for it will become the question of the century.
