Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's WaterThe New Press, 2002 - 278 páginas The internationally acclaimed story of the corporate takeover of our most basic resource and the inevitable global water crisis. In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis" (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: our consumption doubles every twenty yearstwice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates have soared, and water shortages have been severe. The major bottled-water producersPerrier, Evian, Naya, and now Coca-Cola and PepsiCoare part of one of the fastest-growing and least-regulated industries, buying up freshwater rights and drying up crucial supplies. A truly shocking expose that is a call to arms to people around the world, Blue Goldshows in frightening detail why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, "The wars of the next century will be about water." |
Índice
1 Red Alert | 3 |
2 Endangered Planet | 26 |
3 Dying of Thirst | 51 |
Part II The Politics | 77 |
4 Everything For Sale | 79 |
5 Global Water Lords | 101 |
6 Emergent Water Cartel | 129 |
7 Global Nexus | 154 |
Part III The Way Forward | 181 |
8 Fightback | 183 |
9 The Standpoint | 205 |
10 The Way Forward | 229 |
Notes | 251 |
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Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water Maude Barlow,Tony Clarke Vista previa restringida - 2014 |
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