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Water, water everywhere- and not a droptodrink!

Red Weekly No. 165, 9 September 1976 · p. 5 of the scan · 423 words

The scan: rw-no165-sep-9-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 5 of the scan

part of une human shoulders: nature itself!

But nature does not act in quite the arbitrary fashion that these worthies would have us belleve. here is no drought as such. There's plenty of water about-on race-tracks and golf courses, for instanceWTOnE DIaces. that's because sufficient reservoirs and pipe systems have not been built.

Nor was the shortage of rain divinely ordained. 'Natural weather conditions' are the 'ozone layer of the atmosphere.

This ozone layer protects the earth against the harmful effects of the suns ultra-violet rays. But the pollution which is generated by the so-called advanced state or capitanst teennology is cumina ting the ozone layer. The propellants in those anti-perspirant aerosol cans and other spray cans for 'de-polluting' home and body play a role in this. As the ozone layer thins, the sun's ultra-violet rays find supposedly 'natural melting of the ice cap.

Sun-baked All this has the impact of pulling the want to create pollution, but 'where there's muck there's brass'. Anti-pollution equipment is eltner not instarea or anowed to fall into disrepair. It's not good for profits.

No wonder, also, that in response to the drought, in adaition to all we ingen ious schemes to cut back working class consumption (they didn't want to give us up with projects such as cutting down trees. Trees, after all, do consume a great Environment The only problem is that cutting down urecs adas to une probiem. -коссину а small wood was cut down in the South of France. The result was that the averagu temperature in the area immediately rose two degrees Centigrade, thus reinforcing the whole process The poisonous fall-out following the explosion at the lemesa factory in Seveso socialist economy and inform the dem ands and struggles of today.

Australian building workers have already had considerable success in implementing a 'green ban' on anti-social building projects that damage the environment. Socialists in Britain countered the Tories" propaganda about the oil crisis at the time of the three-day week in 1974 explaining that this was aimed to divide the miners from the rest of the class and putting forward alternative proposals for energy production based on coal Simple practical remedies can also answer the anti-working class drought remedies' of Sunny Jim's Government. First, it can't have escaped anyone's notice that Britain is surrounded by water salt water. Desalination projects have been at the newtor israels water Dans. comoneu with irrigation schemes which pump water direct to the roots of crops. Why not Reservoir Secondly, there is the possibility of

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