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2018-10-31 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Climate change pushing 'farmers' north in caravans
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-31 08:02|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 I blame 'climate change' for my not being able to afford a new Bentley Bentaygo Mulliner. Something must be done !
Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-31 08:18||   2018-10-31 08:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Experts, huh?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-10-31 09:43||   2018-10-31 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 EXPERT the new way to spell Moron.
Posted by AlanC 2018-10-31 10:18||   2018-10-31 10:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Catch all blame phrase. "Climate Change"

Also see "add more communism" card.
Posted by DarthVader 2018-10-31 10:43||   2018-10-31 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 The motivation is more Globalist rent-seeking than "communism" that's the cover story.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-10-31 10:51||   2018-10-31 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 They're bringing their dreaded climate change north? Maybe this will have CA think twice about importing their new supply of indentured servants.
Posted by regular joe 2018-10-31 10:59||   2018-10-31 10:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps not in the way the authors intended... Several years ago I was talking to a fellow employee that came from Central America about the "...rising cost of corn and bread at his home village." Diverting foodstocks into biofuels will inevitable raise food prices because the grain is a fungible good. We may consider it 'commercial' grade, but poor people down south don't necessarily share that fastidiousness.
Posted by magpie 2018-10-31 13:00||   2018-10-31 13:00|| Front Page Top

#8 The CIA World Factbook has an answer to why Guatemalans are being pushed off the land:

Guatemala is the most populous country in Central America and has the highest fertility rate in Latin America. It also has the highest population growth rate in Latin America, which is likely to continue because of its large reproductive-age population and high birth rate. Almost half of Guatemala's population is under age 19, making it the youngest population in Latin America. Guatemala's total fertility rate has slowly declined during the last few decades due in part to limited government-funded health programs. However, the birth rate is still more close to three children per woman and is markedly higher among its rural and indigenous populations.

No climate change needed when there are too many kids for the land to support, even with faster crop growth due to higher atmospheric carbon dixide.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-31 13:11||   2018-10-31 13:11|| Front Page Top

#9 "...rising cost of corn and bread at his home village."

Sometime back I saw an article on how the rising popularity of quiona with US hipsters was causing rising prices and shortages in South America where it is a staple grain. Supply and demand in a globalized world, whodda thunk it!
Posted by SteveS 2018-10-31 13:23||   2018-10-31 13:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Jerry Brown was voted in as Governor only because his last name was Brown.
Posted by Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2018-10-31 15:52||   2018-10-31 15:52|| Front Page Top

#11 I blame air conditioning.

We have it. They don't. They want ours.
Posted by Oscar Angeger2751 2018-10-31 22:27||   2018-10-31 22:27|| Front Page Top

#12 "Jose, does the land of the free
Burn corn for their central AC?
Would the Yankees' pais
Freeze without this mais?
We should take Jesusito and see!"
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-10-31 23:09||   2018-10-31 23:09|| Front Page Top

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