Conspiracy theory of the week

 

we grow organic rice, but the dirty little secret is that if everyone did that, poor people would starve.( See SriLanka)

get rid of fossil fuel, and there goes the cheap fertilizer and diesel to run farm machinery. So go back to peasants planting rice using water buffalo? Well, first of all, even in our Catholic area, people aren't having six kids per woman any more (we are about 2.3, still growing the population, but a lot lower than 30 years ago).

But you know, whereas 20 years ago, our staff would take off to help harvest the crop, now we rent a harvester/thresher to do this: Because as the farmers get older, they can't do it anymore, and thanks to land reform, they got richer, sent their kids to school, and now their kids work elsewhere (ten percent of Filipinos work overseas).

So we recruited people from the poorer Visayas to work as tenant farmers on our land, but the land that is now owned by the farmers, well, they are trying to sell it to us, but we are limited to what we can own. So returning Filipinos will buy it, install tenant farmers, and grown rice.

or maybe, sell the land to the local corporation that is trying to buy/rent our land to put up solar panels. So in a country that imports a lot of the rice, the aim is to divert valuable rice land to solar panels? Some poorer farmers might just do that if their kids don't want the farm land.

RIght now, with irrigation, we get two crops a year: With proper irrigation and investment, we could get three crops a year. But instead of investing in food, they will put up solar panels?

Sigh.

I am anti pollution, but there is a difference between development of resources in way that limits pollution, and and stopping farming/ forestry/ mining in the name of a green Gaia goddess. 

That will only lead to hungry people in the cities, and locals mining or cutting trees anyway, but in a more dangerous way that leads to people dying in accidents and more local pollution. Ah, but laws will stop this? Nope. In many areas all it takes is a bribe for authorities to look the other way.

Sigh.