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Originally Posted by Dr Pepper
in 18 years we've had three
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I don't equate continuity of the leader/figure-head necessarily with sound/stable economic or political management. That's a game of deck chairs.
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Originally Posted by Dr Pepper
'unsustainable'....you mean like digging stuff up out of the ground and selling it offshore?
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No. You've seemingly read a comma indicated below in the following phrase that wasn't there:
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Originally Posted by effCup
unsustainable ▼ agro-industrial intensification
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I was talking about the ending of sustainable uses of the land and water by the demands of supply industries and finance capital. There've been various articles about such in the local newsrag of late, e.g.
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#2. But I'd also agree that extractive industries like mining tend not to be very sustainable over the longer term. Privatise profits & publicise waste/environmental degradation/costs.