The benefits of adopting this blueprint will positively impact every nation economically. Jobs are created providing an instantaneous financial stimulus. The positive effects are compounded and will facilitate a multiplier effect on economic growth. Desalinization Plants will need to be built, requiring architects, engineers and trades people. These plants will require raw materials that will drive those industries. Pipelines and aqueducts will need to be constructed. Land will need to be irrigated and farmed creating jobs in both agriculture and the manufacture of agriculture equipment and machinery. There are a significant number of idle manufacturing/production assets sitting idle. There are entire workforces either idled for some reason or simply unable to find work. We can take a town like Flint Michigan and put it back to work for the farming industry, instead of being a casualty of the auto industry. Multiply this by the global population and you can see that an untold number of jobs are created worldwide. Imagine all of the poverty-level people that would love to be able to obtain work. The creation of a worldwide network of aqueducts could instantly pull our global economy out of its current downward trend. We as a global society need to go to work on economic rationales that have value. Building this aqueduct infrastructure and pumping desalinized water to the far reaches of the world now will prevent the catastrophic financial effect on every nation once the oceans rise.
If Earth Could Speak
By Kirk Hylan
