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Water restrictions and gardens
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"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote: Frankly, you don't either. Talk to a Sudanese refugee some time. It's all a matter of degree. Well of course it's a matter of degree! However, I dare say I have a much better idea about drought than some Sydney dweller who only has to turn on a tap to get water. And we aren't talking about Sudan. We are talking about Australia. Sydney people should try living under the regimes in say Goulburn or Byrock where the residents recently went for 4 and a half days without water. They don't kick up a fuss because their water is taken from hundreds of miles away to feed their gawping needs. I don't see why Sydney people wouldn't be able to put up with that, if necessary. Of course we have 4 million people here, and some of them are dills -- we've had people like the OP protesting to the newspapers about not watering their lawns, but they get bucketed (no pun intended!). And of course our decision-makers are often dills (don't get me started on Sartor or desalination!) so they're the ones who start talking about pinching the water from Tallowa etc. My letter on a related subject was published today. I am now awaiting the backlash from the anti-germ brigade. (Near the bottom of the page...) http://www.smh.com.au/letters/index....e#contentSwap2 Again, not in my experience. They lack the sort of curiosity and solution orientation of country people. They have everything handed to them on a platter and so don't have to come up with innovative or real life solutions or have to spend time thinking about things that country people do. Sydney is not Cranbrook. Nor does it consist entirely of the North Shore. Truth be told, there are probably too many people in Sydney who don't 'think about things' because they are trying to keep their heads above (metaphorical) water of some kind. I work in TAFE and I see these people. Contry people being well-known for the speed with which they embrace change... :-))) Nice job of stereotyping. Yours too ;-) Farmers were talking about Global warming and climate change long before the bulk of the population. Only the real lunatic city fringe were talking about those things when I knew of dead boring and very conservative farmers who'd noticed the impact on their land. When? I bought my copy of Blueprint for a Green Planet in 1987, the year I did my HSC (in a middle-class suburb), and it has a page on the greenhouse effect. Really 1987! Bit slow off the mark. I was 17, you geriatric! Couldn't afford to buy books before I turned 16 and became eligible for Austudy. Those stereotypically slow to accept change country people you think so little of, first noticed such issues as salinity about a century ago and they noticed dryland salinity in the mid 1920s. And farmers in the WA SW first noticed and started commenting on the start of the change to rainfall patterns in the 1970s. My own family also started to talk of the decline in rainfall on their farm in NSW about the same time and they live in a high rainfall area on the same farm which was first settled by my GGGfather in 1862. The question is: what did they DO about it? For example, farmers were still *clearing* the WA wheat area in the 1920s. The plantings/earthworks I saw were, I would estimate, ten years old. Bit of a gap there. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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