Water

The historical power of the agriculture lobby over many years, coupled with useless state legislators and Washington policymakers not willing to confront benightedness, has led to the serious deterioration of our waterways and spreading dead zones.

A good mind is a terrific thing to watch. Michael Pritchard, engineer, created the Portable Lifesaver filter, but this is unlike any water filter you've seen before. Now what if we could "imagine" addressing climate change? See Water.

Imagine New York City without it. Some one billion people on this planet have trouble getting it right now. Not your problem?

The same mentality also pervades a large part of U.S. culture. Don't worry be happy.

Don't worry, be happy, it will all work out.

Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, tells us far more than we may want to know about how plastics are devastating our oceans.

We cannot at this point in time repair the damage already done. What we can do is stop creating more ocean destruction. Go to Plastic Garbage Patch.

Would you support a foreign policy that recognizes the importance of water? Would you reduce the defense budget by a few billion? Would you fight to the death for the diminishing supply of water?

YERT travels to Nevada and talks about water, in one of the fastest growing states in the country. Where will the future first appear? Go to Place Your Bets.

What did Pogo say?

It took a while, but after several hundred years feudalism was called into question in Europe, and later the "divine right" of kings was tossed into the ashcan of history.

These beliefs did not go gently into the night. The defenders of the established order considered their critics quite mad, and most certainly dangerous.

As I watched the video I included with this article I thought that the critics would be considered quite mad as well especially, in this case, the critics happen to be some 500 indigenous people in the Amazon, who don't want their river and their way of life destroyed.