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RE: Abandoned Old House, in Labruge (Portugal)
It's hard to understand what's the goal.
Just as an example. We used to have enough Cows for Meat and Dairy Products consumption.
Now... we still have a few Cows... but they are sold to countries like Israel. Go figure.
And are enough Cows left for the internal market? Obviously not. That's why we buy Cows from Poland.
If anyone can explain the logic of that, I appreciate. Because I don't.
The same thing happens with Apples, Pears, Shoes... you name it. Yes, we sell Shoes to Italy... and we buy shoes from Vietnam, Pakistan, India, China... Bangladesh.
Yeah. Interesting. I'd say that happens to some degree here in the states, too. I'd say what we buy from other countries, like China, is due more to economic factors, but I'm sure there is some government involvement with it.
In our case, though, even if we can't buy things made in our state (which doesn't happen a lot), the farming industry hasn't been shut down over it. However, the logging industry has been on the ropes for a while now, simply because the federal government owns a lot of the forests out here, either managed land or national parks. So, every year, a part of those trees end up burning down during fire season.
In that case, there is no goal, other than to destroy local economies through disallowing the logging and then destroying properties when the fires come through. I mean, that's a blunt way of putting it, but what else could the goal be? If it's something else, they're doing the opposite to achieve it.