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Alex Shoumatoff

American Writer

Born: Nov 4, 1946

Back Because People Three Water You

Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward

According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars. Alex Shoumatoff

Day Family You People Water Car Will Face Big Clothes Predict Add Watering Severe Lawn More Consumes Nevertheless Over Blissfully Scientists According Than American Dishes American Family Shortages Social Average Average American Next Billion Wars Many Washing

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms. Alex Shoumatoff

Feeling Whatever Cloud Lasting Immediately Out Constantly Emotional Highly Longer Over Overhead Coming Than Forgotten Apart Moment Elephants

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet. Alex Shoumatoff

Day Great Will Great One Idea Planet Dispose

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests. Alex Shoumatoff

'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global warming. But this is because he is a city boy. Alex Shoumatoff

If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle. Alex Shoumatoff

World Circle Meeting Top Sliver Would Would-Be Lies Russia Above Arctic Only Segments Pole Were Denmark Canada North Orange North Pole Just Norway Just One Them Apiece Sweden Sea Roughly Alaska

The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops. Alex Shoumatoff

Feedback Complex System Kinds Global Loops Climate Nonlinear Interactive

As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix. Alex Shoumatoff

Technology Energy Increasingly Melting Rising Arctic Price Part Bound Global Mix Improving Oil Bigger Ice Keeps

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones. Alex Shoumatoff

Broken Soil Down Way Nitrogen Bacteria Some Per Cotton Pounds Highly Toxic Dead Chemical Fertilizer Get Lakes Acre Creating Requiring Usual Washed Growing Zone

In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents. Alex Shoumatoff

Three Continents Encountered Travels

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