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"0tterbot" wrote in message ... "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message ... I've got no sympathy with whingers who live in the city and complain about the nasties in their water or the lack of it or anything about it. They need to get off their arses and see what is happening in some of our rural communities. It's simply appalling and sucking the guts out of the country. I know you've lived in the country so you have some idea, but most people are simply clueless except for how it impacts on them as the water comes readily from their taps. since i got here (the country) i've really noticed what a gap there is between city people & country people. sadly, it's the majority (city people) who just haven't got the first idea about anything! but the onus is on country people to stop whingeing & educate them. the two lots are entirely interdependent, but you wouldn't know that from observing them. I can't stomach whinging about no water for lawns when I know of one community where the hairdressers are saying to clients that they can't wash their hair so come to the appointment with washed hair. And the hairdressers are only the tip of the iceberg. Everyone in that community is hurting and going broke. We'll leave this drought with devastated rural communities. i agree, but equally, now is the time for rural peeps to be rethinking how they do things. i realise they ARE rethinking how to do things, of course, but frankly they can't rethink soon enough. they need to have rethought 5 years ago, because implementing change takes time. but 5 years ago they thought they were a protected species & change hasn't been fast enough. climate change & global warming were known phenomena 5 years ago; i find it sad things need to become critical before people rethink some of their methodology, but there you have it, it's the way it's always been. i think this post sounds like i'm really down on farmers & of course i'm not. the whole country needs a reality check while they're sitting with their air-conditioning on worrying about climate change. it defies belief, really. i blame the government g kylie Having lived in SE Qld all my life until last year, opinions don't change very quickly. In fact they hardly change at all. Farmer's there are still farming, refusing to obey the new logging regulations, refusing to obey the new dam limitations, refusing to conserve water at all, etc etc and I don't see my generation changing the way things have been done ever since their grandfather's first started farming australia european style. Maajor education is needed in queensland's farming communities. |
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"meeee" wrote in message
... Having lived in SE Qld all my life until last year, opinions don't change very quickly. In fact they hardly change at all. Farmer's there are still farming, refusing to obey the new logging regulations, refusing to obey the new dam limitations, refusing to conserve water at all, etc etc and I don't see my generation changing the way things have been done ever since their grandfather's first started farming australia european style. Maajor education is needed in queensland's farming communities. i fully concur i had not thought about queenslanders when i wrote that g kylie |
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"0tterbot" wrote in message ... "meeee" wrote in message ... Having lived in SE Qld all my life until last year, opinions don't change very quickly. In fact they hardly change at all. Farmer's there are still farming, refusing to obey the new logging regulations, refusing to obey the new dam limitations, refusing to conserve water at all, etc etc and I don't see my generation changing the way things have been done ever since their grandfather's first started farming australia european style. Maajor education is needed in queensland's farming communities. i fully concur i had not thought about queenslanders when i wrote that g kylie Lol...certain qlders |
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