Self sufficient/sustainable thailand

[laolover88]

One of the (many) reasons we are raising our children in Thailand (never mind the dreadfulschools, the traffic accidents etc), is that,

as we look at the future it seems that it is unlikely that Thailand will be destroyed by

catastrophic drought, hopeless civil unrest, overpopulation, food shortages etc.If

the world were to fall apart on the lines of NASA and other projections,it might be OK to be here, for a while?? What do you think!

[wym]

Nope I think the ravenous mobs from the urban man-swarms will be attracted to mythical farang earlier rather than later.

Few farmers have any self-sufficiency, 99.99% are cash anyway - and how will fields be defended from the hungry?

No real place to hide when it all goes pear-shaped, even well-defended underground bunkers stocked with food-stuffs will only last so long, and who wants to live that way anyway?

[CharlieH]

I dont believe there will be anything even close to what you describe in their lifetime, further in the future, different story, over population, shortage of food and even water, but not in my lifetime I am happy to say, I wouldnt fancy facing all those things and being a pensioner, you wouldnt last long, survival of the fitest and all that.

[wym]

A real collapse of the fragile and interdependent global financial systems could IMO bring it on in very short order.

Came pretty close a few years ago, no root causes solved we've just kicked the can on down the road.

Getting more and more difficult to put things on a sustainable basis, will most likely require a reboot.

[mikecwm]

The Greenies and other "Peak oil" idiots have been promising Malthusian catastrophes for generations.

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Malthusian_catastrophe.html

We have been told that a slightly warming world will decimate crops - yet agricultural output keeps rising year after year.

As nations become better educated their populations stabilize then start to fall.

Humans have an uncanny knack of solving problems (this does not apply to governments who consist of people who have never had a real job in their lives).

With the advance of technology and especially Thorium reactors we will be producing cheap safe clean energy within a few years.

Fusion? sounds good, but always 40 years away.

Peak oil? Sure - tell that to America and Canada. More oil and gas than you can shake a stick at.

About the only thing the world has in short supply is common sense from the leaders.

Africa? Well, that's another story. Not sure that Africa will ever drag itself out of its self imposed hell.

[Krataiboy]

Don't you get tired of the taste of sand?

[Thai at Heart]

What precisely is Thailand doing to avoid civil unrest, catastrophic drought, financial implosion, flood pestilence or any other issue.

Thy eat frogs so I guess they will be safe from them.

[swissie]

If in Thailand law and order caused by true civil unrest should break down (and not the Kindergarden-Games that currently are being played in Bangkok), the Farang sitting in his mansion somewhere in the Isaan will be "taken out" first by the mob on a true rampage.

Can't imagine a place worse to be, if such a scenario should unfold.

Cheers.

[krisb]

Over protective parents.