"sw" wrote in message
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Oz wrote:

The hard thing to realise is they are in a catch twenty-two
situation. They only have just enough to live on now. But
what about next year and the one after that and the one
after that - when their wheat yields fall even more, when
they have to go 15km instead of 10 every day for wood, when
the old apple trees give up the ghost and havenâ?Tt been
replaced.

Sustainable????

Clearly not.

it certainly looks grim. The sensible thing to do in that sort of area is
for them to diversify out of food production, get jobs where their labour
will undercut European wage rates and buy food in.
Even a part time job that paid enough to let them get a proper diet would
help break the downward spiral.

Jim Webster


regards
sarah


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Waist deep, neck deep
We'll be drowning before too long
We're neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the damned fools keep yelling to push on