There is a fair amount of controversy about Cubby Station (Queensland cotton farm. There are "fors and againsts" .. gurgle it for more info).
[hmmmm, wonder if we can get the "New" Prime Minister to move into more progressive Parliamentary policy - get them to convince Cubby Station to grow lovely, waving, green fields of Hemp??]
South Australia is at the bottom end of the Murray-Darling
(perspective pic from post, back here Murray-Darling basin in light green.)
Apart from having to close several of our "cross river" ferries due to the fact that the "ferry landing" is now several feet away across dry mud (not to worry, we're planning on building bitumen roads across the riverbed .. sometime soon .. heh.) - one of the Rivermouth Lakes (Lake Albert) is in deep trouble and almost dry. [am not even going to mention the Coorong "wet"?lands].
So, if anyone from the floods in Queensland has a philanthropic streak, and a watertanker .. please send us a couple of truckloads .. would be much appreciated.
Won't be long before the "Murray-Darling" system will be reduced to "lines on a map", and perhaps cartographers of the future will be able to use much less ink.
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I have never much liked Denim, I don't think it wears well. I wear only slacks and shirts made of other materials. Not that I'm assuming that making them doesn't also require and lot of resources to make them.
My underwear is cotton though, I like cotton underwear, but it doesn't last as long as my outerwear.
I wonder how harmful it is on the planet to make my beer. Not that I'm giving up my beer, it's one of the few perks of this planet I enjoy.
Beer? Billy B. Harmful to the planet? Errrm, in relative terms, probably not. Depends a bit on where and how the monoculture hops and grain are grown, but beer is something like 98% water. Humans need water. A case, though, could perhaps be made where the effect of the tiny percentage of alcohol alters the chemical composition of the brain and may well play a major part in "harm to the planet by actions of people" .. but hey .. recycle. Urea stimulates phytoplankton. Phytoplankton is food for .. and so on ..
So, be nice to the planet .. piss in the ocean.
Dunno about your "other materials" though. Are they skins taken from roadkill? Anything made from long string polymer is worse than driving a Humvee 24 hours a day .. heh. Nothing wrong with cotton underwear, BB .. just depends on where, and how, it is grown. (prefer silk, meself ..heh).
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