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@mariner4life that will likely be one part of the changes, but will it be efficient? or what sort of cost gets passed on to us consumers? yet to be answered... but I bet prices aren't going down anytime soon.
More local production would be good - especially for stuff in NZ like building supplies - autonomy and control of supply end-to-end may outweigh per unit prices and margins. Like us sending logs to China for processing then buying back the various products.Setting aside the war for a few seconds the stuff happening in the EU about energy plans is really interesting. As is the level of cooperation that seems to be building. Who knows how far that'll go, or will last, but some stuff that has been shaken may not return to status quo. For things like energy etc that could be great news longer term.
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“The farrago of magical thinking, technocratic hubris, ideological delusion, self-dealing, and sheer shortsightedness that produced the crisis in Sri Lanka implicates both the country’s political leadership and advocates of so-called sustainable agriculture: the former for seizing on the organic agriculture pledge as a shortsighted measure to slash fertilizer subsidies and imports and the latter for suggesting that such a transformation of the nation’s agricultural sector could ever possibly succeed.”
“Faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national experiment in organic agriculture this winter. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised in his 2019 election campaign to transition the country’s farmers to organic agriculture over a period of 10 years. Last April, Rajapaksa’s government made good on that promise, imposing a nationwide ban on the importation and use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and ordering the country’s 2 million farmers to go organic.
“The result was brutal and swift. Against claims that organic methods can produce comparable yields to conventional farming, domestic rice production fell 20 percent in just the first six months. Sri Lanka, long self-sufficient in rice production, has been forced to import $450 million worth of rice even as domestic prices for this staple of the national diet surged by around 50 percent. The ban also devastated the nation’s tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.”
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@Kid-Chocolate that is a horror story.
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Pitchforks and torches.
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I’m beginning to think people in the third world might have reasons to hate the guts of those of us who reside in the first.
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@Bones We need more of your money otherwise the world will fall apart. Sorry I don't see the urgency and will vote for any politician who does not subscribe to your fear mongering. May I suggest he limits his carbon foot print and eat a salad.
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@broughie said in Is this thing sustainable?:
@Bones We need more of your money otherwise the world will fall apart. Sorry I don't see the urgency and will vote for any politician who does not subscribe to your fear mongering. May I suggest he limits his carbon foot print and eat a salad.
Funny you should mention it
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@MiketheSnow they'll eat the farmers meat but want to tax them for farting. They have no credibility.
Is this thing sustainable?