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Summary Of Blue Gold By Anthony Clarke

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The video was a great video and very much an eye opener. This video shows just how powerful water is. It showed how water is essential in keeping the world alive. In class we talked about how once we run out of a resource, it is gone forever, and in the video they talked about when we run out of water, it is gone forever. Tony Clarke, co-author of “Blue Gold,” mentioned that once we use up all of the water on the Earth, we cannot just leave and go to a different planet and use of all of its resources. Clarke said that we need to be careful with the water and not pollute it because only 3% of the water on Earth is fresh water and the more we pollute the water, the less we can use because it is hard to remove every drop of pollution out of the water. Water is essential in keeping people alive and we need to not use more than what can be put back into the Earth. …show more content…

In Mexico, one of their former majors worked at the Coca-Cola plant before becoming the major. In the video it said that when he became major, he game Coca-Cola special privileges in using the water. In France, a big water company donated money to the Prime Minister’s campaign and he spent the money on a trip with a female coworker. He stayed at the best hotel and ate at the best restaurants and in return, that water company got to sell the water in France. The video showed that political people can be bought and big companies can get away with doing whatever they want to do to the

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