Nah, its much easier to blame global warming than raping the land for generations.

The Mallee has always been marginal

It was all well and good giving soldiers plots of land after WW1 but as many found out,
Very hard to farm.

Better running goats than sheep, more money in it for less work.

Just south of there, abundance, soil, grass, sheep.

"1865 George Goyder provided it. He discouraged farmers from planting crops north of his line, declaring this land suitable only for light grazing. However farmers were optimistic. 1865 was a year of bumper rains, so many ignored Goyder and headed north, starting farms and planting crops. Just a few years later many had to abandon their farms. Goyder was proved correct and the land was indeed unsuitable for crops. Many farmhouse ruins can still be seen near Goyder's line." Over grazing and over farming land that couldn't handle it.

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@poddster wrote:

I covered that Sig "ice that is on land mass" 🙂

 

The war we are heading, in a few tens of thousands of years  we will have another ice age so if humanity is still around then they better create lots of CO2 🙂

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    Sorry Pod.  The next glacial period would be due sooner....bbrrrrr.

If you start with carp soil and little rain, it is very hard to make it work.

Australias rain and weather has been evolving for thousands of years.

Just look where pforrests used to grow, big lake systems, now dry, and not because of man made climate change.

Full anatomical humans "modern humans" have  been around for 200 000 years.

 

Anatomically modern yes, behaviorly modern, no........If fact, farming and herding has only occurred during the alst 12-14000 years.  And even then, when disaster struck, they simply hunkered down, and either cursed or sacrificied to their respective gods. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMlr0A2kriM . . . . . . . . . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZnw-d_Axy8

 

Pollution (Land, Air and Water Pollution) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP3pbh_-pu8

 

BP and the Oil Spill BBC Documentary- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zGFvzMMO9w

 

The Right To Breathe - Film- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1M894GH4q4

 

Troubled Water - full film- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onJNkeIKXoE

 

Earth Under Water in Next 20 Years - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYAyF3HwVzI

 

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Joanie

 

What is your view of the Keystone Pipeline ?

 

The one Obama has tied up for Political reasons.

 

 

 

Quite a storm in Sydney.

 

Was up NT was a few years back and the Trough rolled in from the north, very much like this in that

a great cloud bank was evident, followed by torrential rain.

 

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Full anatomical humans "modern humans" have  been around for 200 000 years.

 

Anatomically modern yes, behaviorly modern, no........If fact, farming and herding has only occurred during the alst 12-14000 years.  And even then, when disaster struck, they simply hunkered down, and either cursed or sacrificied to their respective gods. 

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    They are called modern humans.... your ancestors........and they survived through 3 interglacial periods and 2 glacial periods

 

    in the last 200 000 years....Humans survived by becoming more intelligent and adaptable. They managed to survive while 27 % of

 

    Earth was covered by ice sheets.