(As someone who grew up in the countryside) farmers doing something dodgy? That’s so out of character!
Yeah but remember! No farmers no food! They’re the unsung heroes who do no wrong and are the guardians of the countryside! /S
I hate that godsdamned slogan.
It’s insane.
What gets my goat the most is that farmers take collectve action over the most insanely selfish shit, but are happy to be absolutely rinsed over things that are actively making their lives worse!
Imagine if they actually pooled their resources to make sure they got fair pay from supermarkets instead of shitting themselves over inheritance tax and hunting bans.
I say this as someone who lives and works alongside farmers. I have a huge degree of respect for the amount of work a lot of them do, but fuck me they’re a short slighted bunch.
Farms will increasingly be cursed with too much and too little water. The most direct adaptation is very large subsoil tanks that accumulate water outside the growing season, wet periods etc, then pump at night from there during droughts to bridge gaps. Tile drainage for the overly wet periods and the tanks are full.
Humans will need to moderate an increasingly extreme nature to survive.
