Low cost loans just help us dig a deeper hole for ourselves. If we can
even get one.
This is one question which makes me stop wanting to be king. What
the hell to do? I like the idea of helping the farmers to
relocate to the north where it will be wetter...
We need a national water policy but NOT one run by politicians.
Give Tim Flannery whatever he wants and let him hire whomever he wants
and do whatever he thinks is a good idea.
Australia is a dumb place to grow cotton, particularly when we ship the
raw material off-shore for processing, then buy back the manufactured
goods. Cotton is a thirsty crop and 70% or more of what we produce here
is on irrigated land. Crazy.
Relocation may be inevitable in the end, because once rainfall patterns
stabilise we may well find that the traditional food-bowls of Australia
have stopped producing. But you need to realise that a good many (?most)
of our farmers are 60+ years old and would rather not start again.
Actually, make that a national *resources* policy. We need to sort out
power generation as well. If we (earthlings, not you dorayme) put less
crap into the air, we wouldn't be in this mess. If we keep at it, our
planet will eventually (?soon) look a lot like yours.
I was struck by the effect of this:
p.fancy:first-letter {font-size: 230%;
float: left;
vertical-align: text-top;
color:#400;
}
The result is odd. I like it.
On my latest (Blinkey alerted) FF with the extension of edit css
I get no effect from completely deleting
float: left;
vertical-align: text-top;
Drop-Caps are fun.
Those lines are hacks to accomodate some browser or other. I've
forgotten which one wanted the 'float', but I'm pretty certain it was
Opera that likes the vertical-align. Or I may be wrong.
I cobbled the whole thing together pretty much as fast as I could type
using stuff I had lying around the HDD with a bit of Google to flesh out
the hints. The web equivalent of baling twine and wire.
I'll stop now - I feel an analogy coming on ...
