Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes

Post by 01100011 » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 1:45 PM UTC

ccoreilly wrote: post #150

01100011 wrote: post #142

Sri Lanka is the first of possibly many countries to fall or suffer serious consequences in the next year or two. Inflation, coupled with a rally in the strength of the US Dollar, is going to push many smaller nations into resource shortages and ultimately towards revolution. Even many of the major world currencies are doing poorly. The Euro is tanking(back to parity with the dollar, for now, but it may go lower). Th…

What events make you conclude industry in EU will grind? Is it gas scarcity or is there something else?

Post by shanusmagnus » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

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SkeuomorphicBee wrote: post #288

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Nitrogen can come from the air by using nitrogen fixing crops in a rotation, so it can never run out (N2 is the most abundant gas on the atmosphere). The problem is that growing nitrogen fixers take a lot of land time that could otherwise be growing crops. Also not as nitrogen rich as fossil fertilizers (gas N2 is quite stable, difficult to fixers to extract in high quantities). I know nothing about P and K though.

P is mainly manure I believe. It is residual in rocks but I don't know if plants can use that. Ash is a good source for K if there are no other K-rich fermented dead plants available. You get a lot of both from coffee grounds so someone might have to drink a lot of coffee.

Post by hellomyguys » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #40

kumarvvr wrote: post #15

The drastic move to organic farming is puzzling. Any level headed person , forget a politician , would want to experiment first, see the results, gauge and then expand selectively. That is common sense . I guess when you are a dictator ish government and you rule the country with an iron first, the institutions of the state stop being anything and simply become rubber stamps. This also underlines the importance of se…

This is a common feature of dictatorships: a boneheaded decision from a central government wreaks havoc on the people in the field that would know better. It reminds me of Mao ordering all sparrows be killed because they eat agriculture seeds. This of course caused a much bigger crisis with insects destroying crops - because everyone knows sparrows also eat lots of insects.

Post by thedrbrian » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 2:26 PM UTC

Post by londons_explore » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 2:45 PM UTC

freshpots wrote: post #349

londons_explore wrote: post #337

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Water treatment plants let quite a lot of biological contamination through... If you use that to water crops that people eat, you get quite a nice disease spreading loop... Specifically, no water treatment process today tests for viruses in treated water, and there are plenty of viruses that can survive sitting in a bubble tank for a few hours.. Boiling the water for 10 minutes first would satisfy me that very little…

The water isn't being put on soil for crops. The digested sludge is what is used. It is being done already and there are processes in place. https://www.epa.gov/biosolids/basic-information-about-biosol...