So evidently 'yesterday' - internationally - was 'World Water Day'. WWD 'is about focusing attention upon the importance of water on 22 March every year', according to the first (presumably homepage) entry upon 'worldwaterday.org/. Which furthermore declares: 'THE ANSWER IS IN NATURE.' So far, so good.
And we are then asked: 'How can we reduce floods, droughts and water pollution?' The answer, as we are well able to guess (from what immediately preceded): 'By using the solutions found in nature.' Again, well and good, who can argue with that rather obvious, inescapable logic? Who indeed.
Well actually, the very folk promoting this wonderful notion - of a global day of reflecting upon, of focusing the mind upon the importance, the significance of water to our lives (in so many different yet interchangeably critical respects) - i.e. 'WHO' (that is, the World Health Organisation), evidently themselves do contest just such a notion. I.e. that 'the answer', 'the solutions' are to be found in nature itself.
So how do I, how can I possibly come to such a preposterous notion myself? Well, for one simple reason: their ongoing, steadfast and implacable determination to promote, to push, to see the enacting - by hook or by crook - of artificial water fluoridation throughout the world. And that despite there not only being no good and sufficient evidence that the practice ensures healthy dental caries (good teeth), but there now being - internationally - abundant evidence as to the highly deleterious results.
Yes, today there are indeed '663 million people living without a safe water supply close to home, spending countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping [i.e. as best anyone can] with the health impacts of using contaminated water.' Moreover '1.8 billion people use a source of drinking water contaminated with faeces, putting them at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio.' On top of that, 'over 80% of wastewater generated by societies [around the world] flows back into the ecosystem without being treated and reused', and 'unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene cause around 842,000 deaths each year' (WHO/UNICEF/WHO/2014).
No, I'm not - nobody - is arguing that the above is not the case, that the foregoing is just so much 'fake news' in this day and age of the like. But what I and many like myself are indeed 'saying' is that we need to be consistent here. Sure, the vast majority of the world's present-day population doesn't have the 'luxury' to quibble about such 'esoteric' concerns as the addition of a chemical in comparatively microscopic amounts to drinking water (largely in Western countries, but also elsewhere). How can they, they're dealing hand and glove with life-and-death situations and issues.
But when a longstanding, widespread practice such as water fluoridation not only does not bring the actually rather meagre and certainly extremely limited benefits it is continually publicly paraded as possessing/conferring - by so-called 'health' authorities and their armies of bureaucrats and technocrats down the line, while being shown in scientific study upon study to be visiting quite serious consequences upon 'users', yes, including cancer and heart disease (among much else)...perhaps it's time for people everywhere to ask themselves: what's all this actually about anyway?
No, I mean, really? Though 'sorry [does indeed] seem[.] to be the hardest word', sometimes admitting you're just plain wrong, that you've been pushing the wrong barrel up the road for way too long, is a really good place to start. I'm being serious, folks; deadly in earnest even. And why should that be?
Because it is literally a matter of life and death, people. Yes indeed. And the way things are at present, there's quite honestly much blood upon many 'well-meaning' peoples' hands. And as in Nazi Germany, claiming you've just been 'following orders' from above simply won't cut it - any more. If ever it did.
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