Soviet Republic of Australia: The Word ‘Drought’ is Too Upsetting for Farmers; ‘Dryness’ is More Comforting
October 27th, 2008No, this isn’t The Onion.
Via: Telegraph:
The word “drought” makes farmers feel depressed and should be replaced with “dryness”, a panel of Australian government experts has said.
The group also warned farmers to get used to the lack of rain because dry conditions are expected to continue.
“Words like drought … have negative connotations for farm families,” a report by the Drought Policy Review Expert Social Panel found.
“There needs to be a new national approach to living with dryness, as we prefer to call it, rather than dealing with drought.”
The country is currently in the grip of “the big dry” – a drought which has lasted seven years so far and is crippling the farming sector.
The report into the social effects of the drought found it had eroded farming communities and forced families apart. The weather conditions were also a major cause of depression among farmers, it found.
Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
“The group also warned farmers to get used to the lack of rain because dry conditions are expected to continue.”
Open letter to the Conventional Farming Fraternity:
Well, plant some f@cking trees in a well-planned manner and look after your top soil. If you don’t want to wake up and do this, stop crying about lack of rain.
Seriously, f@ck farming.
Read a book (or even just one Bill Mollison interview) and get a clue.
Yours,
xxxx.
Ah, so this is why there’s a “dryness” problem in Australia (makes me proud to be one):
http://forum.globalhousepricecrash.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=4940