ABSTRACT
Water is an interactive thread connecting air, soil, biodiversity, human population density, sunlight, and climate. (Biodiversity refers to the variety of living species and their biophysical functions and processes.) The magnitude of a decision’s outcome is based either on the relative sustainability of its biophysical consequences or on the contrived political/economic promises, despite the ensuing environmental degradation coupled with today’s growing social impoverishment. It is the compounding effect of a decision’s multifaceted outcome that we bestow on all generations—present and future. Participants in the resolution of any conflict need to keep in mind that decisions made become the irreversible consequences of all generations. Consider that we all have myriad choices in virtually everything we do, except choosing, in that we have no choice—we must choose. Deciding “not” to choose is still a choice, a new choice. To this end, I will discuss the inviolable consequences of decisions.
