Belly, you are better than that, we are not discussing Climate, the subject is water storage, and better usage.

Australia has always had droughts, floods and fires; some droughts have lasting years, we need to save and manage water to cope with extreme drought conditions. Put forward answers and wind mills generators are not the answer. My brother has several water pump wind driven and solar pumps to deep springs. They cope with drought conditions not stop drought as some ignorants suppose.

What has changed since Thunderbox dropped out of the news? Nothing at all. Did the nutters who put up a mentally disabled child as a travelling circus really think that anything would change? Yes, they probably did, poor deluded fools. Just like the halfwits in London, squealing that Boris Johnson is not their Prime Minister just because they hate democracy. The lunatics get madder all the time, ensuring that sane people will become more resolute.

Reporting on some nutter who compared Thunderbox with Hitler (old Adolf will never be forgotten), news.com decided that the poor silly child was now so out of the loop that readers had to be reminded that she was " a world-renowned environmental activist". Proof that the media is finished with the little ratbag, and that the 24 hour news cycle has phased her out of the public domain.

And yet the effects of bad population management are still being felt in the environment and elsewhere 40 years after China recognised the problem...

We need to maintain quarantine and a policy of encirclement until the effects have dissipated. Hopefully it will serve as a warning for those that would hold the world as hostage to their will.

There are Locke Liberals and profligates that try hand waving to distract us from the environmental damage caused by human activity. India 40 years ago had half it's population and it will soon surpass China 40 years ago being the higher population on Earth. If they think that they can create a large population- then claim that their people are suffering victims- it's no surprise. If you put your army in danger then they will fight better. By not managing their population India and China before has created desperation to rise above the crush through education or any means and their populations desperate to leave the crush of their own homelands impose their problems and their culture on other countries. This creates a culture where humans are cheap and unvalued as are the products of humans such as intellect. This creates an oversupply (and an economy of scale) of education and labour which reduces the price relative to other countries. But this is probably all to plan as it is a way that their culture can dominate the world. And the leaders feel comfortably insulated from the mess- and find their wealth increasing.

Leaders in other countries see the devalued human capital as a way of gaining advantage and wealth over their local markets- state by state- business by business- ignoring the longer term effects to their countries and their cultures- and the devaluation of humanity. We should work together with like minded countries to encircle bad population management for everyone's benefit. We shouldn't allow product dumping and predatory pricing from high population countries to damage countries that respect humanity. This is the same as the destruction of the US consumer electronics companies by the Japanese 'Keiretsu' in the 80's but on a larger scale. This predatory pricing resulted in anti-predatory laws in the US- we need similar measures to prevent predatory behavior today- but sadly there seems to be much less impetus due to the nature of the affected parties. A good argument for nationalising the legal profession- perhaps.

Everyone is struggling for a better life- some work hard to make it better- others try to use pity and predatory tactics to take from those who work- we need to reward effort- not mismanagement- as this is a bottomless pit.

We shouldn't pity the poor Indians- we shouldn't allow their predatory strategy to undermine our values and our heritage.

There is some value in cheap consumer goods but this is often offset by loss of jobs, damage to culture, devaluation of the currency. There comes a point where the cheap consumer goods are too expensive.

Perhaps we need to be thinking about less consumption and more durable goods.

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