What the heroin industry can teach us about solar power

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Afghan poppy farmers have embraced solar power to irrigate their crops, leading to a heroin boom.

If you have ever doubted whether solar power can be a transformative technology, read on.The market I'm talking about is perhaps the purest example of capitalism on the planet.

Because I wasn't the only person to notice that Afghan farmers were taking an interest in low-carbon technologies.Richard Brittan is hunched over his computer in a nondescript office on an industrial estate just outside Guildford in the south of England.Mr Brittan is a former British soldier whose company,That's a euphemism for dangerous places. Among other things, Mr Brittan is an expert on the drugs industry in Afghanistan.A few years ago there was nothing here.

In September UK police seized 1.3 tonnes of heroin worth an estimated £120m, the country's largest ever seizure. The addicts he works with say the quality of the heroin they buy is improving and there don't seem to be the droughts in supply that Mr Higham says he regularly experienced during his quarter century of addiction.Image captionBut he says he has started to see what he calls"new generation" of addicts coming in for help.

 

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Greta would be proud

Afghanistan drugaddiction UKGovernment Why are the Afghanistan Govt and the rest of the world allowing 9M tonnes of opium to be produced? This stuff kills millions.

The more you take .......the closer to the sun you get ?

Riddles are not news!

Napalm the early May crops seems to be the logical answer.

Solar power to reduce carbon, to grow bigger yields of heroin !! You couldn’t make it up. 🥴🥴🥴🥴

wtf good news eternal life Jesus why not son powered

Getting rid of the taliban control led to the heroin boom you useless journalists

How did the American dream get over there?

Interesting title for an article.

how things have changed Blair lol

Not a bad read

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