{"id":34177,"date":"2018-05-11T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34177"},"modified":"2018-05-11T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:37:45","slug":"the-fisherman-and-the-farmer-a-tale-about-overexploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34177","title":{"rendered":"The Fisherman and the Farmer – A Tale About Overexploitation\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fisherman and the Farmer – A Tale About Overexploitation\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Ilaria Perissi<\/a> and Nicola Calisi playing the fisherman and his wife in a theatrical piece shown in Florence in 2017. The piece was based on the story told below (text by Ugo Bardi). The <\/i>origin of this story is told here<\/a>. <\/i><\/div>\n

Once upon a time, a fisherman who lived on the shore of the lake went to visit his cousin, a farmer, who lived in the countryside.<\/p>\n

\u201cCousin,\u201d said the fisherman, \u201cI am glad to see you and that God blessed you with a good wife and many children. But I also see that your children are thin, and they look hungry, and the same is true for your wife. I am sad at seeing that, cousin. Why don\u2019t you make bread for your children with the grain that I saw you keep in the granary? Don\u2019t you trust God to provide for you in the future? I can tell you that God gives me abundant fish from the lake where I fish, and my good wife and my children don\u2019t starve.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCousin,\u201d said the farmer, \u201cI am glad to see you, too, and I am sure that God blessed you in giving you abundant fish so that your wife and your children do not starve. But you are right when you say that my children are hungry, and it is true that we haven\u2019t had much bread to eat. But the land sometimes gives us plenty and sometimes not so much. This year, times were more difficult than usual and the harvest was not so good as I hoped it would be. Yet, I must follow the rules that my father followed, and my grandfather before him followed, and the ancient fathers of all of us followed.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Fisherman and the Farmer – A Tale About Overexploitation\u00a0 Ilaria Perissi and Nicola Calisi playing the fisherman and his wife in a theatrical piece shown in Florence in 2017. The piece was based on the story told below (text by Ugo Bardi). The origin of this story is told here. Once upon a time, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[10777,20096,7445,2692],"class_list":["post-34177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-cassandras-legacy","tag-fisherman-and-the-farmer","tag-overexploitation","tag-ugo-bardi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34178,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177\/revisions\/34178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}