Roman aqueduct of Luynes. Credit: Daniel Jolivet
Roman aqueduct of Luynes. Credit: Daniel Jolivet
I’d recommend not salting your earth.
The Roman Empire fell into oblivian for many reasons, but the weather wasn’t one of them.
It was my understanding that in the end, there were more takers than makers, with the treasury being plundered much as it is today in our own country, with the end result being financial collapse.
Scientists are attempting to reduce the amount of water required to successfully raise our food.
Monsanto is the best known company doing this kind of research and is producing many GMO seeds which will help feed the world.
Africa has banned such life saving seeds in all but four countries.
It is somewhat disheartening to see so many Freepers on board with denying food to people who desperately need it.
My God, the left even tries to use the Roman Empire to pimp for Global Warming. Hey Dermody, leave the Romans alone.
“However, as we move closer to the limits of the planet’s resources, our vulnerability to poor yields arising from climate change increases,”
The correct ending to this sentence is “...limits of the planet’s resources, the price of the scarce resources will rise and a free market will produce solutions that will make everyone wealthier.”
virtual water trade.... sounds ridiculous
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“However, as we move closer to the limits of the planet’s resources”
Another liberal Luddite that never read or learned from “The Population Bomb”, by Stanford University Professor Paul Ehrlich, 1968, which proclaimed the we’d all have starved to death by now.
Starvation is caused by political instability, exactly as the Romans experienced, not the ability of the planet to support all of us.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
