“It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.” DoeRealCountryWaterCitiesProduceIndustryTradeThreatEnvironmentalInvisibleBordersGrainScarceScarcityImportsIrrigationNational BordersAquifers Author:Lester R. Brown
“There are many different places of power around the world. They're invisible openings to other worlds. We find a preponderance of these places in the Himalayas, in the western part of the United States; of course, in every country of the world there are some.” WorldDifferentCountryStatesCoursesUnitedUnited StatesBuddhismWesternInvisibleOpeningAround The WorldOther WorldsDifferent PlaceHimalayasCountries Of The World Author:Frederick Lenz