Yesterday I read an article in TIME (10/19/20) titled HOW TO BUILD A SAFER WORLD. One paragraph (page 56) stood out related to the water we are allowing Nestlé to take from Chaffee County.
I quote:
“We are tempting fate every day. We are now watching the effects of climate change on almost every part of the natural environment. It is bringing a warmer climate to more of the world, thus creating more hospitable conditions for disease. It is also turning more land into the desert–23 hectares (57 acres) every minute, by U.N.’s estimate. In 2020, Luc Gnacadja, who headed the organization’s effort to combat desertification, called it “the greatest environmental challenge of our time,” warning that the top 20 centimeters of soil are all that stands between us [humans] and extinction.” Thirty-eight percent (38%) of the earth’s surface is at risk of desertification. Some of it is caused less by global climate change than by something more easily preventable: the over-extraction of water from underground.”
My perspective:
I taught my students that a centimeter was approximately the length of the nail of their pinky. Imagine the depth of only 20 of those nails creates. The potatoes in my garden grow lower than that!
Please share this information AND seriously consider what we citizens are contributing to desertification and human extinction by continuing to allow Nestlé to remove water from Chaffee County.
I am strongly opposed to continuing a contract with Nestle.
Respectfully,
Eileen J Rogers
Salida
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