General Discussion, page-1541

@Empty Nose - Well thankyou Mister Amateur Psychologist - your advice might come in handy to combat the anger, the tears, when this goes completely haywire.
Well, dear Mister Empty Head:
My friend over in Europe is a level-headed individual who until quite recently was a schoolteacher battling against all odds to teach migrant kids the local language - he has just about given up on the 'invasion' of another culture who are not prepared to adapt, or even work, but have children instead and the lot with some exceptions is on social welfare. But that's another matter. (and this applies to every European country, [including England] who have a welfare system and a National Health system - this will bankrupt and destabilise Europe quicker than anything else.
Weather:
Now that my friend and his wife are retired, they travel a fair bit and I get 'weather news' from just about everywhere in Europe, including the southern parts. For example: have you noticed the problem the Greeks are having with yearly fire storms in summer, right into autumn, all caused by excessive temperatures? Of course not, you probably are as Aussie-centric as most people on here, even here in Australia we seem to ignore the hotter and drier summers we have been having now for the last 10 years and it's getting worse.

Up until quite recently climate change was discounted by many people - and in particular those invested in fossil fuels.
This seems set to change, with climate extremes happening, which can no longer be ignored.
My prediction is that we will wake up at the last moment and begin to re-vamp almost all of our technology to beat this, which means we will be using more lithium and God-knows-what-else in order to survive as best we can.

Sadly, many people who invested in EUR seem to have put their eggs into one basket only and many put substantial sums in, all due to the spruiking of this project, which in the hands of a genuine mine builder, would be productive by now, but it is in the hands of dealers, who will eventually turn it over to someone else - hopefully - at a profit. Tony & Co got lucky because this downturn of the market gives them a great way out - and they can say that "it wasn't their ineptitude but the vagaries of 'the market' which caused the project to fail"!
GLTA
Taurisk