Blue War

We live on the Blue Planet, and soon we'll be fighting Blue Wars. It's called the Blue Planet because 70 percent of its surface is covered with water, and water will be the thing we fight over in the wars of the not so distant future...

When our armed forces are sent over to Iraq and Afghanistan, it's not to spread freedom and democracy, and it's not to fight terrorism. We all know that these wars, like every other war in human history, are over precious resources, mainly the "black gold" or oil. What if I told you that water is already referred to as "blue gold"? You know what that means, don't you? It means that we're rapidly running out of fresh drinking water. The disease called capitalism wants everything to become a tradable commodity and it celebrated no greater success than its conquest of water. Life as we know it can't exist without water. Life as we know it probably originated in water. So when we ask "who owns our water", we essentially ask "who owns our right to life". Yet here we are, privatizing the liquid of life...

It's one of capitalism's "greatest" feats that it has managed to turn the world's most abundant liquid, water, into a scarce product. If you've never heard of it, look up some information on the Cochabamba Water War; after the Bolivian government was forced to privatize its water, we had the first small water war. "Privatization" is one of capitalism's many buzzwords, presented as an essential part of the ever holy "free market," that we as western societies have wholly bought in to. So much so, that we even manage to privatize the source of all life on the planet, and thereby make it scarce. Here's Wikipedia's article on the upcoming water conflicts.

When you watch the below linked video on the upcoming water wars, keep in mind that all of this is just another symptom of the overarching disease that is capitalism. You see, 70 percent of the planet is water. The only problem is that it's salt water. But that's not really a problem at all; we're perfectly capable of desalinating that water and make it fresh. Unfortunately in capitalism everything is reduced to a cost-benefit calculation and it's just too expensive to do this: it's way cheaper to keep on ravaging the 1 percent of the planet's water that's readily drinkable. Here's an interesting article about that: Why don't we get our drinking water from the ocean by taking the salt out of seawater? And the wars over that 1 percent will ensure the continued profitability of the military-industrial complex. And if we just keep on polluting the rivers, keep on making tap-water undrinkable, the bottled-water industry will do just fine... See how that goes? Profit and growth before the well being of the planet or its inhabitants, ourselves included.

Watch the video and keep in mind the urgency of the need to collectively demand for another socioeconomic paradigm. Capitalism is not efficient, it's not fair, it's not just, it's just bad all around. It's sad that it takes times of severe crises, like right now, for most people to finally get it, but I guess we should just be grateful that more and more people are indeed waking up to the fact that there are no answers to be found within capitalism. Let's just hope it's not too late...

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