{"id":131,"date":"2005-09-25T21:57:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-25T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2014-11-17T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T05:11:09","slug":"h20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/h20-131","title":{"rendered":"H20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching a brilliant Canadian movie, <em>H20<\/em>. It was intelligent, well-written, well-directed and very thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>A conspiracy involves the son of a recently-assassinated Canadian prime minister. A group of businessmen  attempts to change the political landscape of the whole of North America. The bargaining chip? Water.<\/p>\n<p>Full of mystery and danger, the movie cleverly suggests a metaphor for the US with its controlled hysteria (\"We are fighting a war against terror\"), and blame for many things on the current scapegoat, the muslims.<\/p>\n<p>I come from a country critically short of water (Australia). I live in a country (Singapore) that depends on a neighbouring country (Malaysia) for the bulk of its water needs. Neither situation is sustainable, especially as the population of both countries continues to increase (due to immigration in both cases). <\/p>\n<p>As clean water becomes more and more scarce as the world becomes increasingly overpopulated, expect water to become a greater source of international tension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching a brilliant Canadian movie, H20. It was intelligent, well-written, well-directed and very thought-provoking. A conspiracy involves the son of a recently-assassinated Canadian prime minister. A group of businessmen attempts to change the political landscape of the whole of North America. The bargaining chip? Water. Full of mystery and danger, the movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}