{"id":62526,"date":"2022-04-24T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62526"},"modified":"2022-04-24T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T13:29:08","slug":"the-coming-removal-of-the-mandate-of-heaven-part-2-water-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62526","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Removal of the Mandate of Heaven, Part 2: Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title long unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crisiswatch.substack.com\/p\/the-coming-removal-of-the-mandate-04a?s=r\">The Coming Removal of the Mandate of Heaven, Part 2: Water<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>Water, water everywhere but all of it polluted<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Before I started I wanted to address my last post. I wrote it a little too hastily due to a sick daughter and I plan to go back and clean it up somewhat. The political infighting aspect will be trimmed down as I plan to discuss that more in Part 3, with only the parts directly addressing the food issue being kept in.<\/p>\n<p>China has also started taking efforts to address some of these issues and I want to address what they\u2019re doing. I fully admit to having an axe to grind when it comes to the CCP, but I want to make sure I\u2019m as intellectually honest as possible. This includes giving them credit on the rare instances they manage to do something smart.<\/p>\n<p>The fact these plans will wind up making it worse is just icing on the cake.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to reformat it according to the template I plan to use going forward.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll also be doing a Part 0 for this series which will include a table of contents for all of the posts in this series, and which will provide an overview of the relevant portions of Chinese history with a special focus on the Confucian concept of the Mandate of Heaven and its removal.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to get that done tomorrow evening, but can\u2019t guarantee that will occur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Water Thresholds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to understand the grave danger China is facing, we need to understand water usage and thresholds below which the population begins to face some level of danger. For that,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/china-environment-water-idUSL3N0NL3ZN20140429\" rel=\"\">we\u2019re going to turn to Reuters for an overview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coming Removal of the Mandate of Heaven, Part 2: Water Water, water everywhere but all of it polluted Before I started I wanted to address my last post. I wrote it a little too hastily due to a sick daughter and I plan to go back and clean it up somewhat. The political infighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[130,32862,32859,638,866,16547],"class_list":["post-62526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-china","tag-crisis-watch","tag-eric-mertz","tag-pollution","tag-water","tag-water-shortages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62527,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526\/revisions\/62527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}