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Post by chequeredflaggg on Mar 9, 2013 7:52:04 GMT 10
Id heard of the Great Plains Dust Bowl Okies etc, but didnt know much about it, I hadnt heard of the continual dust-storms and the health problems the dust itself caused for a start, ESPECIALLY TO SMALL CHILDREN, this documentary was one of the most sad and brutal Id ever seen.. real hardship year on end and these poor bloody people!! Ken Burns' The Dust Bowl. www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/19316803610/The-Dust-Bowl-Ep2 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2013 8:39:57 GMT 10
Huge environmental disaster.....action was taken and a remedy found....lesson learn't there.
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Post by caskur on Mar 9, 2013 8:51:35 GMT 10
Id heard of the Great Plains Dust Bowl Okies etc, but didnt know much about it, I hadnt heard of the continual dust-storms and the health problems the dust itself caused for a start, ESPECIALLY TO SMALL CHILDREN, this documentary was one of the most sad and brutal Id ever seen.. real hardship year on end and these poor bloody people!! Ken Burns' The Dust Bowl. www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/19316803610/The-Dust-Bowl-Ep2 That is what greedy men have done to Oz... |
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Post by fat on Mar 9, 2013 13:46:15 GMT 10
That was an eye opener to me too.
Thanks Mr Flagg.
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Post by fat on Mar 9, 2013 13:49:38 GMT 10
ABC - I don't quite agree there. Farmers are very aware and love their land - they are more into soil retention and conservation than anyone. May sound strange but it makes good business sense for large landholding corporations to be the same - and they are.
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Post by chequeredflaggg on Mar 9, 2013 17:00:46 GMT 10
ABC - I don't quite agree there. Farmers are very aware and love their land - they are more into soil retention and conservation than anyone. May sound strange but it makes good business sense for large landholding corporations to be the same - and they are.
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Post by chequeredflaggg on Mar 9, 2013 17:06:42 GMT 10
Ken Burns does great work I am a big fan of "The War" and "The Civil War" and have both on DVD. I missed the Dust-bowl but have no doubt it is first class. you can watch both previous episodes on SBS on-demand Buzzock. It is pretty well known the background of Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath, the poor families of bastards from Oklahoma loading up the Beverley Hillbillies truck every possession and taking off towards such as California , where a pretty cold reception awaited them, people putting up signs on town limits words to effect "okies F-off" even getting police to turn them away from even entering town, but until this show, i had no idea still how unbelievable the suffering and hardship was.. this is on top of the shit they would have already been in line for just from the Depression, even IF farming conditions had remained good...their commodities prices had all collapsed anyway.. I dont know how they even survived to the extent that they did...that the whole fucken region didnt turn into basically Ethiopia/Somalia, so far as famine goes. thats the difference between us and the Kaffers, I guess. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2013 17:35:35 GMT 10
Dust to Eat - Filmmaker Ken Burns chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history
Dozers with chains and balls are out there now still clearing massive hectares of land under State conservative governments who have eased land clearing laws....getting ready to replant again and cash in under Abbott's climate change policy of planting trees and soil sequestration, rather than getting industry to stop polluting the skies which is creating the biggest global man made ecological disaster.....bourgeois urbanites...climate change is crap "don't you worry that"....crikey...fair dinkum...dumb or what...the RW cannot see the wool being pulled over their eyes.
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Post by slartibartfast on Mar 9, 2013 17:39:01 GMT 10
ABC - I don't quite agree there. Farmers are very aware and love their land - they are more into soil retention and conservation than anyone. May sound strange but it makes good business sense for large landholding corporations to be the same - and they are.
He lives in a banana hut and believes in Samoan Sea-spirits..And you call me a dumbfcuk. ABC is caskur, dimwit. |
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Post by matt on Mar 9, 2013 17:56:23 GMT 10
I have watched it and it could happen in Australia.
Australia is an urbanised nation, so most of our land is used for agriculture. The problem is that all the food is shipped to urban areas, and we eat it, then we defecate and piss and it all goes out to sea.
We need to trap all our waste, including feces and urine, and use it as fertiliser. The waste treatment centres should be breaking down all this waste into its basic elemental form, and then sending it to the farmers.
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Post by caskur on Mar 9, 2013 17:57:31 GMT 10
Ken Burns does great work I am a big fan of "The War" and "The Civil War" and have both on DVD. I missed the Dust-bowl but have no doubt it is first class. you can watch both previous episodes on SBS on-demand Buzzock. It is pretty well known the background of Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath, the poor families of bastards from Oklahoma loading up the Beverley Hillbillies truck every possession and taking off towards such as California , where a pretty cold reception awaited them, people putting up signs on town limits words to effect "okies F-off" even getting police to turn them away from even entering town, but until this show, i had no idea still how unbelievable the suffering and hardship was.. this is on top of the shit they would have already been in line for just from the Depression, even IF farming conditions had remained good...their commodities prices had all collapsed anyway.. I dont know how they even survived to the extent that they did...that the whole f***en region didnt turn into basically Ethiopia/Somalia, so far as famine goes. thats the difference between us and the Kaffers, I guess. Americans are tough.... not like whiny Eastern States Aussies! |
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Post by garfield on Mar 9, 2013 18:05:40 GMT 10
Dust to Eat - Filmmaker Ken Burns chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American historywhich is creating the biggest global man made ecological disaster.....bourgeois urbanites...climate change is crap "don't you worry that"....crikey...fair dinkum...dumb or what...the RW cannot see the wool being pulled over their eyes. LOL, I was thinking of you and Tim Flannery when I was watching Dust bowl, people were running about like headless chooks saying its the end of the world, were fucked, were all gonna die, just like you do now after .6 of a degree of natural warming, imagine if you and Tim had to deal with a real crises like dust bowl ... faaarrk ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2013 18:08:31 GMT 10
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Post by fat on Mar 9, 2013 21:21:33 GMT 10
I have watched it and it could happen in Australia. Australia is an urbanised nation, so most of our land is used for agriculture. The problem is that all the food is shipped to urban areas, and we eat it, then we defecate and piss and it all goes out to sea. We need to trap all our waste, including feces and urine, and use it as fertiliser. The waste treatment centres should be breaking down all this waste into its basic elemental form, and then sending it to the farmers. It is - they do It stinks too LOL. |
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Post by garfield on Mar 9, 2013 21:57:58 GMT 10
Our sewerage treatment plant here recycles sewerage and pipes it out to the market gardens.
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Post by slartibartfast on Mar 9, 2013 22:08:14 GMT 10
We need to trap all our waste, including feces and urine, and use it as fertiliser. You're too late! Floggg, Garfluff and Stellar already use do that in their messages. |
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