RT had a little documentary on the PSKOV region… these beautiful little villages and sub cultures that Russia still has. The story was that the one village only had 200 people left and its about to die.
Russia if you let that happen, you crazy. Look at your villages and if those people need a damn tractor, give it to them. If they need a little technology, give it to them, be it bee keeping, making wood alcohol, charcoal… whatever.
Make guesthouses and advertise them for the villagers… Give them a hot air balloon… whatever…. ensuring the sub culture is maintained.
Connect all these villages either by light air, or high - speed train.
Don’t make it a loan… make it something like money for a tax on all village exports... including tourism. You want stimulus… it’s a great way to do it.
Most first world people are sick of big glossy cities… real people are much more fascinating. Russia is a gold mine, and its real value is not its gas... gas is just the starter.
Which country still even has a black smith... don’t loose that stuff... just help them bootstrap. Cities suck... the little villages you about to lose are very special... and I think, the future.
Im from the good ole united states and you know one of the main scares we have besides china growing so much per year is one the shrinking supplies of oil and two the vast land russia will have when global warming hits the world, this my fellow people of the world will change global powers significantly. The united states, china and parts of western europe will be deserts while the upper continents such as russia and canada will become fertile utopias. I just hope by this time russia will pull its head out of its ... on this love/hate relationship with the united states and other "evil" nato countries because we are going to need each other more than ever.
01 August, 2009, 19:26
RT had a little documentary on the PSKOV region… these beautiful little villages and sub cultures that Russia still has. The story was that the one village only had 200 people left and its about to die.
Russia if you let that happen, you crazy.
Look at your villages and if those people need a damn tractor, give it to them.
If they need a little technology, give it to them, be it bee keeping, making wood alcohol, charcoal… whatever.
Make guesthouses and advertise them for the villagers…
Give them a hot air balloon… whatever…. ensuring the sub culture is maintained.
Connect all these villages either by light air, or high - speed train.
Don’t make it a loan… make it something like money for a tax on all village exports... including tourism.
You want stimulus… it’s a great way to do it.
Most first world people are sick of big glossy cities… real people are much more fascinating.
Russia is a gold mine, and its real value is not its gas... gas is just the starter.
Which country still even has a black smith... don’t loose that stuff... just help them bootstrap.
Cities suck... the little villages you about to lose are very special... and I think, the future.
20 June, 2009, 23:52
Im from the good ole united states and you know one of the main scares we have besides china growing so much per year is one the shrinking supplies of oil and two the vast land russia will have when global warming hits the world, this my fellow people of the world will change global powers significantly. The united states, china and parts of western europe will be deserts while the upper continents such as russia and canada will become fertile utopias. I just hope by this time russia will pull its head out of its ... on this love/hate relationship with the united states and other "evil" nato countries because we are going to need each other more than ever.
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