The title of this book - "Bourbon for Breakfast" - should have tipped me off. Although this book pretends that its purpose is to encourage freedom from statist mandates, let's not forget that there is no government mandate against drinking bourbon for breakfast, and that drinking bourbon for breakfast is simply a bad idea (if you want to lead a healthy and productive life).
Sadly, after the horrible title, it is all downhill. The first chapter, "The Bureaucrat in Your Shower," not only irresponsibly encourages people to waste domestic water, the premise for this irresponsibility is a lie. The book states: "The U.S. Geological Survey of the U.S. government reports that all domestic water use ... constitute less than one percent of the total water use."
This is flat out wrong. It took me about three minutes of research to debunk this, as the U.S. Geological Survey's official website states that "The majority of people in the United States used water provided by public suppliers... Self-supplied withdrawals for domestic use were estimated at 3,260 Mgal/d, or about 1 percent of total withdrawals for all uses in 2015, supplying an estimated 42.5 million people. Nearly all (98 percent) of these self-supplied withdrawals were from fresh groundwater sources."
So the 1% statistic cited in this book actually refers to domestic water use that is self supplied from sources such as wells. 99% of water in the USA comes from public suppliers. The U.S. Geological Survey further states that in California, 13% of the water from public sources is consumed by domestic use. In Texas, that figure is 9%. This inconvenient truth completely invalidates the false claim that people who irresponsibly waste domestic water aren't harming their communities.
And that is just the title and the first chapter. Is it surprising that a book that encourages drinking bourbon for breakfast is full of disinformation, lies, and bad advice? No, it is not. This is what we can expect when science deniers preach frivolous indulgence over responsibility. The problem is that this type of disinformation is taken seriously by readers and then repeated to others. If we are ever to repair and improve the current status of our society, this type of dishonest rubbish must be denounced and exposed for what it is.
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