#1 Makes me wonder what the birth rate is in Somalia right now. What gets me is the idea that local landowners would let the irrigation system fall to pieces. That's incredibly self-destructive - of what use is agricultural land without reliable water? If they're that irrational, then they're incapable of self-government.
Not that the Indian farming class is winning any prizes, either. Dumb fuckers keep sterilizing their fields with excessive urea, because their archaic socialist agricultural ministry over-subsidizes urea. Like that bit in Idiocracy with the sports-drink irrigation system... |