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it says higher gross domestic product, not "more crops". it doesn't actually give a figure (cause like how would you separate it's effect from just progress in general???). and again that could just mean more cash crops which doesn't necessarily mean more actual societal benefit is getting created.
if this shit was voluntary wouldn't need to enforce it. liberalism in general self-defeating trash.
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It says "gross product," not GDP. That's referring to crops and manufacturing, and a later point specifically called out almonds.
The relationship between irrigation and crop yield isn't a mystery.
There are citations for the claims if you want to follow them (but you won't).
It's not a controversial position that these water markets improved economic output in Australia.
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confirmation bias tends not to be all that controversial when it comes to the religion of economics.
yeah i'm not digging thru 3 papers to find trace elements he lifted. how about you do that.
i mean as if ca agriculture hasn't been dynamic and shifting for the past 2 decades either?
gross product measured in dollars, not literally amount of crops grown. "high value" sources are considered better by economists treating it like a black box... that really doesn't mean they are lowering prices for most ppl, because it could just be redistributing production towards goods for the rich few, or export. markets don't really give a shit about the masses. it's not charity.
so far you haven't listed any hard numbers. cause u don't actually care to.
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I care about growing the economy, not your commie goalposts. Read the cited articles if you want to know why there's consensus that it was good, how that was determined, and the hard numbers backing it. I'm not going to do a writeup on a country/state I don't know well when all you'll do is demand more every time I post. !anticommunists !neolibs
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yes i get it neoliberals don't actually care about the people actually in the economy. just numbers go up. even if happiness goes down.
that "benefit" of almond growth is actually a cancer coming at the expense of other basic food staples: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-australia-water-trade-drought. current almost production is set to utilize 80% the total irrigation water for an average rainfall year. wow such efficiency.
ur a cancer coming at the expense of basic concern for general welfare. i do pray u land in gulag one day. people like u actually deserve to suffer.
but thanks for forcing me to deconstruct the bs u spread, i did learn something
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Yes. Almonds are extremely profitable per gallon of water. You can buy more food and everything else by growing almonds instead of cultivating an "efficient" crop that makes lots of calories per gallon of water. Australia does not have a problem with calorie availability.
You must think it's inefficient to have a job and buy food instead of subsistence farming.
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the guy who literally just said he didn't give a flying frick about the average food price,
makes a complete 180 to try and cope about how selling almonds abroad aktually allows for more and cheaper food imports???
i don't believe u've got a single coherent thought in ur entire shit eating mentality
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I said I didn't care about lowering food prices, which, if you ever took economics, you would realize is different from improving purchasing power. !neolibs
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that's like an average day for me poorcel
right cause multinational agrabusinesses (like literally the canadian pension fund) are totally improving the purchasing power of the average australian.
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