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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 6, 2019 9:37:40 GMT 10
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blueshoes
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Post by blueshoes on Aug 6, 2019 9:50:41 GMT 10
Dislike! Dislike! I mean good post but I can't like this, it's not good news
This calls for that lord of the rings "and so it begins" meme unless someone knows a better one
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frostbite
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Post by frostbite on Aug 6, 2019 11:08:29 GMT 10
I smell opportunity.
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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 6, 2019 11:21:11 GMT 10
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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 6, 2019 22:22:30 GMT 10
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Post by spatial on Aug 8, 2019 0:07:07 GMT 10
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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 15, 2019 17:42:28 GMT 10
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Post by milspec on Aug 15, 2019 18:26:51 GMT 10
Glad we got on the prepping path a while back.
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Post by spinifex on Aug 15, 2019 19:38:56 GMT 10
Another perspective: Anyone remember the 70's and 1980's? Vietnam and Arab Israeli wars, Oil embargos against the west, high inflation, 20% interest, builders struggling for work, shitty exchange rate against the $USD, recession. AND back then we had a thing called the Soviet Union sponsoring revolutionary armies all over the world and capable of wreaking thermonuclear obliteration of the entire planet.
We'll bat our way through these economic and political follies as well.
For me the bigger concern is the effects that Climate Drift is having on global agriculture. That's my industry and I can see we are in uncharted territory these days. I grew up on a farm with a permanent creek on it until the early 1990's. Full aquatic ecosystem of plants and animals. It is now just a grassy depression in a paddock. No traces left of anything aquatic. And ... that creek hasn't been dammed and never had any water extracted from it for irrigation. It's simply a case of the rainfall in that area has permanently reduced to a level where groundwater recharge of the springs that fed that creek has not happened for 25 years. Cropping areas that were thought of as 'reliable' for a century are now 'risky'. We have livestock feed shortages the like of which I've never seen. We again have soil drift the like of which hasn't been seen since the 1980's ... despite the shift to much better soil conserving cropping practices. These are things that can't be fixed by financial tweaking and changes in policy.
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Post by frostbite on Aug 15, 2019 20:22:12 GMT 10
I remember the 80's, Spinifex. Bought my first property, 150ac near Casino in nth NSW, in 1986 at 21% interest. Saved my arse off and paid it off in three and a half years. Most younger people have no idea what frugal is.
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