Caution, do not watch this unless you want to be rendered hysterical. This short video clip ranks up there in the “funniest things I have ever seen” category.

Video: Samron, youtube

Image: Emily on picasaweb

For those who missed our green oxymoron contest a few weeks ago, well, all I can say is, you had to stay till the end. They just got better and better. And several people walked off with very cool self-powered LED lights that will never need batteries from LoveEarthAlways.com. They will ensure that you will always have lighted darkness. And, by the way, we are giving one away with every order in September! If you missed it, here is a replay of the winning Green Oxymorons.

Sometimes I feel “alone in a crowd” when it comes to being environmentally aware. I respectfully submit these five fuzzy logic green ideas. Healthy Fast Food – what? Sustainable Iceberg Hotel – huh? Green Shopping Mall – really? Clean Coal - icky? Green Fashion Show – wow? Ever wondered how Eco-Sexy you can be with a Cosmo-Green lifestyle?

Clean Coal, Fish Farming, Monsanto Corporation (doesn’t fit just sayin’), Eco Barbie, Exxon Cares.

Icy hot, progressive decay, bird dog, pygmy mammoth, still wind, unhappy cheers, and cowardly lion

Vegetarian Meatballs, Plastic silverware, Corporate conscience, Melted ice, Horse fly

Ahahahaha! Thank you for another Friday Funnies break! Enjoy the weekend!

As Dan Tefft @TreeBanker on twitter says, “We can live with out oil, We can’t live long without water” Two international reports predict a “water bankruptcy” and a crisis even greater than the financial meltdown now destabilizing the global economy. The World Water Forum, which will be attended by 20,000 people in Istanbul, Turkey will hear stark warnings of how half the world’s population will be affected by water shortages within 20 years, with millions of people dying and increasing conflicts over dwindling resources.

A report by the World Economic Forum, which runs the annual Davos meetings of the international business and financial elite, says that lack of water, will “soon tear into various parts of the global economic system” and “start to emerge as a headline geopolitical issue”. Both reports warn that it is already beginning to take effect, over half the world’s population will live in high-risk areas and there will be no way of bailing the earth out of water scarcity.

According to these reports, is eactly the same amount of it on Earth as there was in the age of the dinosaurs, and the world’s population of more than 6.7 billion people has to share the same quantity as the 300 million people during Roman times. Water use has been growing far faster than the number of people. It is expected that by 2030 water scarcity could cut world crop harvests by 30 per cent – equivalent to all the grain grown in the US and India – ashuman numbers and appetites increase.

Already 60 per cent of China’s 669 cities are already short of water and the Yellow River now has only 10 per cent of its natural flow, sometimes failing to reach it’s delta. Glaciers in the Himalayas, which act as gigantic water banks supplying two billion people in Asia, are melting faster as global warming accelerates. Meanwhile devastating droughts are crippling cropland from Australia to Texas.

The World Water Development Report, compiled by 24 UN agencies under the auspices of Unesco, adds that shortages are already beginning to constrain economic growth in areas as diverse and California, China, Australia, India and Indonesia. The report, which will be published today March 16th, also expects water conflicts to break out in the Middle East, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Colombia and other countries. These scenarios are likely to “increase the risk of major national and international security threats”.

Oakleigh believes that the World Water Forum and World Economic Forum reports and predictions are based on solid data. Human bodies consist of almost 80% water and our food supply is completely dependent on aboundant water. As we stated in the climate change post, shifting crop growing zones will create water-free geographic zones where plenty of water exists now. The water crisis to ensure human survival will create political conflict on a desperate scale. Now is the time to build awareness, develop technology and create resources, conservation practices and change to avoid the future disaster.

Saving the Planet

George Carlin rants cynically about saving the environment in this performance. Actually Carlin’s reasoning has some merit. He finally comes to say we don’t have to save “the planet”. The planet is going nowhere, but we are! As Carlin says, “The planet is fine, the people are f___ked! Once we are gone, the Earth is a self-correcting system… Beware with younger listeners, Carlin drops the F-bomb a couple of times.

Video: comraderussian, youtube