The press is today concentrating on comments from one of Britains’ top scientists, Professor John Beddington, the world is heading towards a ‘perfect storm’. The culmination of the population increasing, alongside the decrease in the amount of food and energy available could lead to severe consequences. Making having a plumbed in water cooler even more important.
Articles on both the BBC and The Guardian websites have been published saying that by 2030 the world will be in a crisis due to a combination of agricultural, environmental and social factors. The reports make for fairly grim reading, and although parts of it is speculation, many scientists are in agreement that unless some changes are made it certainly could happen.
The reasons for the bad outlook is that it’s thought that in 2030 many of the affecting factors will come to a peak. With the worlds population steadily increasing at an alarming rate, the need for crops and water is going to be higher than ever. However, at the current moment there is only a food reserve of 14% of the entire population. Climate change is something that could seriously affect this, if severe weather leads to floods or a draught many crops could be destroyed, leading to a serious shortage across the globe.
The big question is that even if a disaster did not take place, whether we are still going to be able to keep up with the increase in population. With a lot of our energy sources becoming less and less viable, the challenge is to either find a suitable, sustainable alternate energy source, or to ensure that in the meantime we do not push our luck in regards to our energy use at the moment.
Water is also one issue that the professor raises, in under developed parts of the world it is very much a struggle to find a constant supply of clean water to drink. Therefore it’s more important than ever to make sure as little water as possible is wasted, and that the water you do drink is from an environmentally ethical source. There’s not really a better way to ensure this than drinking water from the normal mains supply. By having a plumbed in water cooler you are making sure that your home or office is only being supplied with water that hasn’t been transported for hundreds of miles, or is being stored in plastic bottles that are an unneccesary waste.
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