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Originally posted by arcsine
Yeah, who really cares if the pesticide is highly toxic or maybe even carcinogenic. Lets release a bunch of it to help those farmers out. If nothing else, our philosophy now is that short term gain should be made at any long term cost. Maybe it will not seep into the water table and cause birth defects downstream (not your baby, what do you care); maybe it will just sit in the soil and the cattle that feed in the pasture will ingest it it will become part of the milk supply (no one really drinks milk anyhow).
This statement is the most ludicrous one I have seen made here in quite a long time.
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Interessting book out now that's worth reading. It's called "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed."
It explains how civilizations like those in the Mesopotamian valley rose to lead the world and after 6,000 years turned into the third world. Ever wonder why they called it 'the fertile crescent' when today it's just sand and rock? It used to be lush forest. Failure to manage resources turned it into desert.
Interesting theory.