Southern Thailand

We tend to constantly ignore public wealth simply because it is in the common wealth, it's common goods.

And here's an example from Thailand, where we found that because the value of a mangrove is not that much, it's about $600 over the life of nine years that this has been measured, compared to its value as a shrimp farm, which is more like $9,600, there has been a gradual trend to deplete the mangroves and convert them to shrimp farms.

But of course, if you look at what exactly those profits are, almost $8,000 of those dollars are in fact subsidies.

So you compare the two sides of the coin, and you find that it's more like 1200 versus 600.

If you look at the lens of public wealth as against the lens of private profits, you get a completely different answer, which is clearly conservation makes more sense.

and not destruction.

So is this just a story from South Thailand? Sorry, this is a global story.

And here's what the same calculation looks like, which was done recently, well, I say recently, over the last 10 years, by a group called TrueCost.

So again, when a Thai person talks about Na Nao, the experience depends very much on where they live.

Southern Thailand is different.

The South is interesting because the weather pattern doesn't always fit neatly into the same three-season pattern.

The south is strongly influenced by the monsoons and the rainfall can vary depending on which side of the peninsula you're in.

The Gulf of Thailand side and the Andaman Sea side can have different rainfall patterns.

That's why you might have one beach destination experience beautiful weather while another part of southern Thailand is getting a lot of rain.

So when someone tells you It's raining a lot in the South at the moment.

That doesn't necessarily mean every part of the South has exactly the same weather.

At the age of 34, Minka put herself once again in the hands of the one who said, I am he that opens and no man shuts.

And she found the open door in South Thailand with Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF.

Here her servant's heart stood out to all, all except to herself.

Her fellow workers joked, when Minka stands before the Lord and he says to her, well done, good and faithful servant, she will look over her shoulder to see who he is talking to.

PT Saturn.

PT Saturn, I'm giving a nine because they keep reminding us that football is an entertainment business and their motto, win or lose, seems to be, oh, we come from South Thailand and we don't give a shit.

Great stuff.

Thank God we're not having to give marks for singing.