What is Next Nature?
With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
Discussion
That coke bottle might also have been a water bottle, showing the other side of the story. In Venezuela a gallon of water is more expensive than a gallon of gas.
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http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/News/InVenezuelaGasCheaperThanWater.aspx
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/world/americas/07brazil.html
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And it is not just because the gas is so cheap. Water might be the blue gold of the future.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Water/Blue_Gold.html