Crisis looms for Bolivia as glaciers melt

Source: ABC.net.au

Crisis looms for Bolivia as glaciers melt
By Mark Corcoran for Foreign Correspondent

Posted 8 hours 1 minute ago
Updated 7 hours 46 minutes ago

The glaciers in the Andes mountains of Bolivia provide about half the drinking water for two million people down the mountain. But the glaciers are now melting at an unprecedented rate and will be completely gone within 20 years.

The mountain's traditional guardians, the Aymara Indians, say that to ascend this 6,000-metre peak without absolution is to incur the wrath of the gods.

"They're not angry with us, they're telling us something," an Aymara priest says as he gives a blessing to local people.

"We have to live with nature in a balanced way - if we don't pollute more, and if we don't industrialise, if we learn not to pollute we'll be able to live a bit longer."

On the arid western side of the Andes mountain range, snow and ice mean water, and water is life. Now this icy realm is melting before their very eyes.





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As a note: Fox "news" hate radio in Kansas City, KCMO am, has been running a commercial for weeks, funded by "the American Majority" or some such nonsense, claiming global warming is a lie, and that the earth is actually getting colder and colder, and vows that glaciers in South America are GROWING, as proof of the lie.

Why is it important for right-wingers to insist on spreading these whoppers at all costs?

Well, my theory is this: They don't want their faithful to THINK about this at all. They realize that when they are out of office, and the Democrats hold all branches of government, these issues WILL be discussed, and then, in simplistic fashion, they can blame global warming on the Democrats!!

"See, when BUSH was in office, we NEVER had these PROBLEMS!!!!"

Can't you just hear it? If a moron says it, why, they think it MUST be true!

in the neo-con movement. About 30% of 300,000,000 = 90M or so. Hmmmm enough to fill a small country, let's give em one, maybe TX, AZ, NM, Southern CA, OK, NE and KS should be enough. Their own little county, Jesusland, how sweet.

for somewhere in the Midwest, say somewhere around Kansas.

I apologize ahead of time to DU/liberal folks who live there, and invite them to replace the new citizens of Jesusland who will be leaving (kicked out of) CA.

Greatgrandpa & -ma left KS for CA in 1908, in a covered wagon with 8 kids. They never looked back.

It wasn't a problem until the Democrats made it one. :evilgrin:



That's sick.

Example:

Under Poppy the First, Secretary of Defense Cheney has his staff and ALL the Services working round the clock on a military drawdown plan. He finally gets it done, and he implements it. A couple of years later, around year three or more into the plan (and there's no turning back because you've gone through a BRAC round or two), Clinton gets elected.

Next thing ya know, the Wingnuts are blaming CLINTON for a plan that Cheney created and set in motion!

Masters of Propaganda. The Great Wurlitzer has been fine tuned over the years.

As Poppy said in 1992: "Lies work."

... and they are doing their damnedest to make sure that it comes to pass.

Apparently, their faith in their god is not so strong that they don't believe Jesus could use some help from Exxon.