Bond. James Bond.
When the history of the Trump presidency is written, I’m sure we will find out that Trump’s fascination with Greenland can be traced back to something he saw on TV.
Late one night, alone in his bedroom while flipping through the cable channels, Trump came across and watched the 2008 James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. In that film, a ruthless businessman named Dominic Greene seeks to stage a coup in Bolivia so that his company can obtain control of the country’s entire water supply.
Climate change is wreaking havoc on global weather patterns and disrupting global food and water supply chains.
Rising sea levels mean that saltwater is infiltrating fresh water aquifers and ruining farmland.
Major cities around the world are running out of drinking water. Pretty much like India and the rest of the world
Sixty-nine percent of the world’s fresh water – 69%! – is stored in form of glaciers. The largest single collection of glaciers in the world outside of Antarctica is in . . . Greenland. Those glaciers are melting at an astounding rate with their fresh water running out to sea.
In twenty years the most valuable resource on Earth won’t be oil or natural gas – it will be fresh water. If the United States were to buy Greenland, it would control the largest remaining source of fresh water on the planet the world.
Trump is easy to understand. You just have to know that he gets all of his information from TV and thinks like a Bond villain.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up and a free Blizzard.
Now that you mention it, he looks like a an old school Bond villain. While Roger Stone goes more for the Batman villain look.
1Folks in Greenland should start supplying water to the rest of the world. It would be great for their economy.
Another business to invest in would be the catchment systems to store rainwater. I spent years in Belize on an island that only had limited water supplied to them by the town about two hours a day (for showers, washing dishes, clothes, etc.). Every house had a huge black rain barrel and a system of piping to catch all the rain that fell on the roof with a shutoff valve at the entry to let the rain rinse off any contaminants that were on the roof. It was then opened to allow the water into the rain barrels…simple yet very effective.
The reverse osmosis industry is growing fast too. I tried to buy stock in one down in Southern California, but it was privately owned, so no such luck. I had a watermaker on a sailboat I owned, and it made the purest water straight out of the sea.
But, since Trump won’t get to own Greenland, there’s not much he can do there. We have options.
2@P.P. #1:
Nahh, Dotard has that classic “banana republic dictator” vibe. Moscow Mitch however…
3I’m surprised Trump doesn’t have a white Persian cat…
4Dolt. Donnie Dolt.
5Dish is waaay off tropic…
Is Larry Kudlow DRUNK on CNN at 6AM in the morning??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5o9k0Lb9s
Sober as a judge, or drunk as Otis Campbell?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVJfXBCddbI
6Congrats to the Danes for the way they handled this! When I was in undergrad school a few eons ago, it was possible for a student of limited means to fly to Greenland round trip for diddly and then write a paper for one of his classes. I think it was Air Iceland that was handling the flying. The rumor was that they bought up all the old American Airline planes the company had decided to jettison for one reason or another. Air Iceland rejuvenated them and made a profit. You see, this was one way of doing what members of the Junior Class were doing by taking a semester in France or wherever. And in the throes of December and early January, it was also possible to fly round trip to Mexico for $90 and come hoe with a tan worth bragging about.
7These damned ‘Murikan Nazis actually believe that it’s ‘Trumpland, Trumpland, über alles, über alles in der Welt’.
In near twenty years Greenland’s glaciers and snowcover will be gone, melted away to the sea [~12Billion tons/day].
And all that fresh water going into the adjacent oceans will-is itself enhancing global heating/climate change in subtle ways far beyond the ability of the ignorant deniers to comprehend.
Just another factor in the ongoing destruction of the Earth’s biosphere.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/2/1876200/-Shocking-video-from-Greenland-were-an-estimated-12-billion-tons-of-ice-melted-in-a-single-day?utm_campaign=trending
8Long article from 2012 with lots of interesting tidbits.
AK Lynne: check the third and fourth paragraphs. I’ve heard Colorado is worse than Oregon.
Everyone else: “find on page” [Bush]
I think Trump heard about the Bush family…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274
9Suzanne, thanks for the reminder about this Oregon water issue. I couldn’t believe it when I heard about it. I’ll have to look into this to see if law has changed. Bottling companies such as Coca-Cola have been rebuffed in attempts to steal our water.
And what of the laws in Arizona and Florida that discourage, outlaw or put penalties on residential solar panels due to lobbying by power companies. Making people buy coal or other unclean energy sources. Accelerating climate change for a buck. Greed really is the root of all evil.
10I understand that Hawaii also doesn’t allow solar panels. Which is ridiculous, considering how much it costs them to import fuel.
11Lunargent @11, I don’t think so.
12Many Hawai’ians have home solar and wind installations. More every day, as their electric [and other energy] prices are somewhat more than mainland ones.
Next year, our goal is landscaping (half acre) and Dave plans to add enough barrels to keep his vegetables and any other plants alive.
Washington State even encourages collecting rainwater: https://ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Water-supply/Water-recovery-solutions/Rainwater-collection
We’re in Western Washington State. Seventy-five percent of our energy is supplied via hydro-electric (Bonneville Power Administration). When you travel to Eastern Washington, you can see wind turbines (windmills) for miles and miles. Still supply under 10% I think but more and more each year. Lots of solar panels, too, although not so easy to see from the freeways.
AND, we have batteries here so we have power at night and when the wind dies. Could someone explain this miracle to Trump?
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