Posted by TargeT
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First factual statement:
5:50 live stock uses 34 trillion gallons of water a year.
COUNTER:
Globally, the agricultural sector consumes about 70% of the planet's accessible freshwater
6:07: california is Plagued by drought & water usage is a major concern (this follows the above statement so closely that you INFER that they are connected, they are NOT).
COUNTER:
Agriculture is 80 percent of water use in California. Why aren’t farmers being forced to cut back?
6:20: the average human consumes 1500 gallons a day, half of which is due to meat...
COUNTER: no sourcing, one can only guess it's lies & made up figures (
http://pacinst.org/wp-content/upload...ll_report3.pdf <-- source page 3, figure #3 ) especially since most beef is "corn fed" and corn is not a major product of California, IE: it's shipped in from elsewhere.
7:04 55% of water in the US is used by animal agriculture
COUNTER: No sourcing... REAL FACT: about 70 percent of all the world's freshwater withdrawals go towards irrigation uses (IE: PLANTS... obligatory source:
http://www.globalagriculture.org/rep...ics/water.html )
7:30 more un sourced numbers...
10:00 Done for now!
So far this looks like a typical manipulative movie, where you sprinkle enough facts in to make it seem legit then twist them to a given agenda.
Not all water is equal!
hen it comes to freshwater most people think of water in rivers and lakes, groundwater and glaciers, the so-called “blue water”. Only part of the rainfall feeds this freshwater supply. The majority of rainfall comes down on the Earth’s surface and either evaporates directly as “non-beneficial evaporation” or, after being used by plants, as “productive transpiration”. This second type of rainwater is termed “green water”. The green water proportion of the total available freshwater supply varies between 55% and 80%, depending on the region of the world, as well as local wood density. The biggest opportunity and challenge for future water management is to store more green water in soil and plants, as well as storing it as blue water.
even with as wasteful as agriculture is, it's still not "wasting" water, it just uses it, then puts it back into the environment, humans are MUCH more wasteful with our water, we stick it in pipes and ship it off places, some times directly into the ocean..
I don't have much more time, busy weekend. but after this short time spent watching (and researching what I was told, not just sitting there like a sponge) I've found this movie to be basically what I thought it was, emotional manipulation on topics that need little consideration.
WATER IS NOT AN ISSUE ON A PLANET THAT IS 2/3 COVERED IN WATER!!!!!!
(also: global warming is a myth, we live in a cyclic world which we barely understand, the arrogance of us to assume we are the direct cause of ANYTHING on a global scale of this gigantic planet is astounding... next time you think global warming is real go look up how much energy it takes to change a small body of water by 1 degree of temperature, the numbers will astound you)