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The Book of Water
Charlie Stuart Gay Charlie Stuart Gay

The Book of Water


In hardly six years, water will have become a distant memory for over one billion people on this planet. There will be social and economic unrest and wars will be over Blue Gold.

Whilst browsing in a second hand store I found an old book chronicling Fidel Castro’s reported speeches. Castro was known for his rhetoric and he had his own television show every week for years when he would speak to his nation about everything from the effectiveness of a type of light bulbs to the need for everyone to be given a pressure cooker to make rice meals and eat better! In 2007 he once talked on the subject of water. The statement I read has been on my mind every day since.  

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Climate Refugees - Is this our civilization's Titanic collision or is it to be our ultimate coming of Age?
Charlie Stuart Gay Charlie Stuart Gay

Climate Refugees - Is this our civilization's Titanic collision or is it to be our ultimate coming of Age?

Climate Refugees - Is this our civilization's Titanic collision or is it to be our ultimate coming of Age?

Would you say spending £7.22 Trillion or $9.176 Trillion a year on housing refugees is a sustainable investment?

It may be distasteful to lead with money a discussion regarding the current displacement of millions of people when human suffering and tragedy is present. The utter horrors of unrelenting wars and global gang violence, poverty, famine, flooding, and yes ultimately a simple dream of a better life has led to the escalation of asylum seekers. However right now it is only our governments that are having to figure out how to foot ever increasing bills of migrants crossing borders, and when you hear the news and the sum is a few billion dollars it’s likely you may just flip the channel. What’s a few billion these days…..but a sum of $9 Trillion may have you not ignore.

And why I am is because what you are witnessing at the moment is a trickle.

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