Posted by Declan on April 21, 2007, at 22:40:58
In reply to Re: Climate change in Australia » Declan, posted by fayeroe on April 21, 2007, at 21:30:26
If there is no rain then there will be no water for 50,000 farmers by June.
Unfortunately but predictably, this situation is not being used to encourage Australians in cities to live within the limits of our climate, but instead is the occasion for more dams, pipelines, desalination plants and stuff like that. Eventually we will get rainwater tanks, like we used to have in the past and some recycling.
What is it that leads us to demand the right to inflict wounds on ourselves?
Germany before WWI feared encirclement.
By a series of unwise and agressive moves it created the encirclement it feared.
Since the encirclement was there, it precipitated a conflict, sooner rather than later, to win.
That's the pattern for our species.
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