Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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Unless we collectively change our behaviour, we are heading for a mwater crises, in the not too distant future.
Man is foolish. He will never know the true worth of water, our most precious resource,until it is all gone and undrinkable.
Man the only creature on this planet who destroys what is so necessary for survival.
Promoters, corporate executives and government officials commonly use the word "sustainable" to soften the unknown consequences of certain development proposals.
But when water, air and the environment are at stake, the use of the word becomes abusive and disrespectful. Water, for instance is not a renewable element, so when a proposed project endangers a water supply, any attempt to describe it as "sustainable" ought to be rejected, outright.
We should never tolerate the building of dream proposals, touted as economic windfalls, especially when conclusions are based on promises of "sustainability."
Our water, air and environment are much too important to be sacrificed in the board game called "Greed."
The Precautionary Principle, by Prof. David Suzuki only re-enforces my words when he says,"Until you know the harm you are causing by an action, it is best to avoid that action."
The simple lesson that we need to remind ourselves of is this:
We, are all but strands in the web of life. And anything we do to the web ultimately affects us all.