"Si amas verdaderamente, dale espacio a tu pareja, apoya su crecimiento, controla tu

carcter y escucha mas de lo que hablas" Frase matona con dosis de ubicatex!
Amar es un verdadero arte. Y si amas de verdad la confanza se transmite y se valora. Se
que no es fcil cuando hay motivos sufcientes para dudar de quien tanto amas. Pero es
mejor aclarar las dudas y llegar a acuerdos contundentes y no estar amenazando y mucho
menos expresando tu poca autoestima al decir que sin el amor se esa persona no eres
nada.
Population Growth Puts Dent In Natural Resources
ScienceDaily (Oct. 10, 2009) , Ph.D., professor of earth and
planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.
Louis, sees standing on the speakers dais at political rallies, de!ates
and ca"paigns. #ts na"e is population gro$th.
%Population gro$th is driving all of our resource pro!le"s, including $ater and
energy. &he three are intert$ined,% 'riss says. %&he United States has over ()*
"illion people of the +., !illion on the planet. We are dividing a finite resource
pie a"ong a gro$ing nu"!er of people on -arth. We cannot e.pect to sustain
e.ponential population gro$th "atched !y increased per capita use of $ater
and energy. #ts trou!ling. /ut politicians and religious leaders totally ignore the
topic.%
'riss speciali0es in hydrogeology, the geology of $ater and syste"s of $ater.
1uch of his $ork has an environ"ental slant. 2e investigates the transport of
a3ueous fluids in environ"ents such as rivers, cool pota!le ground$ater
syste"s essential to civili0ation, and deeper, hotter hydrother"al syste"s. &he
results "ay !e co"!ined $ith physical, che"ical or geologic data to infer
nu"erous aspects a!out the origin of $aters and the processes that
su!se3uently affect the".
A "a4or focus for 'riss and his associates is the origin, character and !ehavior
of river and flood$aters in the 1ississippi, 1issouri and 1era"ec 5iver !asins.
Since 677), the "id8continent e.perienced floods of such severity that they
$ould not, under nor"al circu"stances, !e e.pected to have all occurred in a
period of less than several centuries. 'riss and a colleague have proven that
engineering "odifications of $ater$ays have increased the fre3uency and
severity of floods on "ost 1id$estern rivers.
9or decades, he has taught a popular non8"a4or course for undergraduates,
2u"an Use of the -arth.
&he United States is e.periencing rapid population gro$th at a rate higher
than al"ost any other developed country along $ith increased food
production, 'riss says. #n "any areas, especially the West, the practice of
%"ining% ground $ater to irrigate arid or se"iarid land, $hich $ont $ork in the
long run, is !eco"ing co""onplace. %-nergy and $ater use are inti"ately
related,% he says. %As $ater ta!les decline, you have to use "ore energy to lift
the $ater out of the ground. &hats $hat a pu"p has to do in places like Ari0ona
$here $ater levels have dropped "any hundreds of feet. 1ore people, "ore
$ater use, "ore food, "ore energy. #ts not sustaina!le.%
'riss says appro.i"ately 6*) "illion A"ericans use ground $ater, "ost of
$hich is nonrene$a!le. When a $ell cannot pass drinking $ater standards, it is
shut do$n and another one is drilled. :round $ater e.traction leads to dropping
$ater levels in "any places, and su!sidence ;salt$ater intrusion< in others. &he
latter is the case in so"e of 9loridas coastal cities, $here salt $ater "i.ed $ith
ground $ater has "ade drinking $ater unpalata!le.
%:round $ater, fossil fuel resources, cropland and forests are all !eing depleted
or degraded,% he says. %&houghtful argu"ents can !e "ade that for a
sustaina!le $orld, $e already have too "any people, far "ore than can live !y
decent standards.%
2e says that, $orld$ide, the rates of increases of $ater and energy use have
risen faster than population gro$th for the past *) years. &he fertility rate has
actually lo$ered in "uch of the $orld, !ut the United States rate of =.6 children
for every $o"an of child8!earing age !et$een 6* and >7, is no$ not "uch
!elo$ the $orlds average, $hich is =.+.
Despite $hat "ight appear as progress, 'riss is disappointed that the United
States has not contri!uted to the United ?ations Population 9und for the past
seven years. &he Population 9und, !egun in 67+7, ena!les people in
participating countries to learn a!out population gro$th and reproductive health.
%&hese U.?. pro4ects have "ade great progress $ithout any help fro" the
United States.% 'riss says. %1any countries are seeing reduced gro$th rates.
Africa still has a !ad pro!le", !ut things are not as !leak as seven years ago.
&here are "any "edical, logistical and environ"ental reasons that these efforts
should !e supported. #ts a considera!le e"!arrass"ent to "e that "y country
isnt chipping in.%
'riss says there is a dearth of thoughtful dialogue on "ankinds pressing
pro!le"s in the political arena. &he politicians, he thinks, see the *))8pound
gorilla !ut ignore it.
%2aving children $hen youre too young, too old, or having too "any children, is
not good for the $orld,% he says. %So"e of the candidates see" to have $orld
vie$s inco"pati!le $ith the realities of the $orld. #ts o!vious there are too fe$
resources to go around no$. &he notion that $e can 4ust continue to gro$ and
gro$ and gro$ is not realistic.%
'riss says real change can co"e if the country can grasp the great risks
involved $ith our present approach.
%&heres an old sa$ that the definition of insanity is doing the sa"e thing over
and over and e.pecting a different result,% he says. %@ddly enough, that is our
current energy policy, and its not a $inner.%
Adapted from materials provided by Wasin!ton "niversity in St. #o$is.