[–] i_scream_trucks ago
It never occurred that it was so fertile because of farming?
Oh right well in that case how about you go buy a nice big desert on the cheap and start planting shit. Im sure planting stuff in the middle of a desert will turn it arable so you can plant stuff on i-waaaaaaaaaait a minute....
Uh, he's not wrong.
While "desert" is obviously another issue entirely, agricultural technologies don't just take a terrain "as it is" but work it and enrich it constantly to make it productive. Chances are these areas weren't so "fertile", before these farmers started taking cares of them.
For the SA government to o claim "these bastards came and took our greatest source of food" is shortsighted, to say the least. They didn't just take them. They made them what they are.
[–] thisistotallynotme 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Wow, this was a surprisingly reasonable argument on neoGAF. Most people were condemning South Africa, and could see where it was going.
[–] SpaceC0w 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I was surprised, too. I thought, "Wow, Resetera is being quite reasonable and logical here." Then I realized I was reading NeoGAF, not Resetera. It figures.