Sugar beet is what you grow where you cant grow sugar cane. Its like a beetroot thing that can produce sugar. inferior to sugar cane. has a chalky taste. But gets people by I suppose.
Yeah, and most of the sugar cane countries now own you. Times have changed. But yeah, I love English steel, I spent more on a sharpening file than a Brazillian knife.
Our lives won't change that much, as developed countries. Sure, the petrol V8 is a dinosaur and electric cars are only just marginal at the moment, they work a treat in Norway where they've got cheap hydro electricity. We can work aound it.
Do we have a right to tell developing countries like India and China- OK you've gone from the bicycle and ox cart to the car in the last few years, but now you must go back to the bicycle and ox cart because we have been driving cars for the last 50 years... There is an unfairness in that. And with Canada, there is an unfairness with tar sands. There's no easy answers, or they'd have been adopted years ago.
It's a tough one. I was thinking a similar thing today. I started my car so I could fiddle with my phone in air conditioning, as countless millions did today. If it weren't petrolium, it would be biofuel, and how many acres of canola would be wasted for us to be sitting in air con while Africa etc. starves? Its a complicated issue, as is places that rely on employment and economic inputs of petroleum industry, there are no easy answers.
But at least you are thinking about it, and made people like me think about it. So thats something I guess.
Jesus died around Easter time, for our sins. But then he came good again, thanks to the Easter bunny. So now we celebrate Christmas with cake, as a sign of respect.
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RE: What happened to the locals?
You should have suggested that a month ago, before the corona outbreak.