Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Is Mother Nature Angry at CCP? Disasters Amplify Food Crisis, Rice Price Hits a 12-Year Peak" video.

China has always dealt with weather events especially floods (why do you think they built all those dams?) and typhons. Don't blame it on "climate". It is just weather. China is, by one definition, hit by seven or eight typhons per year. Another definition says 21 (probably includes tropical storms). The peak season runs through October. The current season is forecast to be right around the average in terms of number of typhons. This year we have an El Nino, which ALWAYS increases the strength of typhons. This is a long-understood phenomenon and predates "climate change". So, do us all a favor and stop with the climate alarmism. The earlier typhons affected the agricultural regions because of the discharge from dams to protect Beijing and Xi's pet project. I have seen the reporting on this on this channel and others. Xi does not care about food for people. He has instituted policies like terracing hills for rice cultivation, which failed. He has directed the tearing up of trees planted to halt desertification so that more grain can be planted. How do think that is going. His minions have also torn up other agricultural crops to make way for grain production. The total idiocy of Xi and the CCP is breathtaking. One of the main reasons for the one child policy was to halt the population growth because of concerns about food security. The US led rules-based international order is what allows China to import what it needs to survive. China wants to destroy that order. China does not have the naval power to guard the necessary trade routes. Any belligerent action, either against Taiwan or India, will mean total interruption of all trade routes. How many people will starve in China? It is too awful to contemplate. China will literally go back to the era of Mao. Perhaps that is what Xi secretly wants.
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@hughmungus2760 I understand that, and that is what make the recent failures interesting. There are two ways they have failed. In the first instance, the ones that have been built recently have often washed away. There is lots of evidence of this, and it was happening before the typhons. In the second instance, the terraces as built are not amenable to mechanical harvesting. There are not enough people in the countryside to work this type of agriculture. Don't forget that in past times there were lots of peasants to work the land. I hope that clarifies things.
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He might want to withdraw his troops from India's border and redraw the map.
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@living_well_18 Thanks.
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@ronaldcadorette4353 Thanks. I have been following this for a long time. I am glad it shows.
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@hughmungus2760 Well, your first point is interesting, but I think the question answers itself. They did it for thousands of years. They would know where it would work and where there had been problems before. So, over time they would avoid problematic locations. The CCP has no such knowledge. As for the automation in farming, that is coming, but in reality, the widespread application is going to be slow and expensive. I worked on some machine vision projects for agriculture. It is very capital intensive. We will see it, but that is going to be a while. I live in the US and since I moved to the Midwest about 30 years ago, with in-laws that are farmers, I got more in tune with what is happening in farming. Just in the time I have been here the percentage of the US population involved in farming has dropped dramatically due to automation. Just to give some perspective on the capital issue, one farmer I know told me that his 1,200-acre farm was about the smallest (we are talking grain farming) that is economically viable. This is because of the cost of equipment. At least ten years ago he got two new tractors (the larger ones). These had autonomous operation capability back then. He didn't use it. I also notice this with people who have a Tesla with self-driving capability. They often don't use it.
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