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Originally Posted by Oldtimer  our president continues to say that humans do not have global impact on the environment.  |
LOL, although they've had an impact on the moon and Mars right.
You know, we are having an election soon, there's not a whole lot of talk about the drought, water, deforestation etc. Seems pretty typical across the globe.
ABC over here has a program on Sundays called Landline, very good, very informative.
What I have trouble understanding is we have all these geniuses who have solutions and know what's going on. Some fascinating research and evidence ... yet, bugger all mentioned by politicians, it's some-one elses problem apparently.
Over here we have an inland river system called the Murray - Darling and I was surprised to learn from an interviewed farmer that the river used to flood every year up until 14 years ago and hasn't flooded since. The salinity issue for some farmers is getting that bad that in the Riverland region their usual crops of grapes and citrus has been given a max 20 year life span due to salinity ... the crops wont take it.
In addition their irrigation usage has been dropped to 16% of what it used to be.
What a mess.
So some innovate and undoubtedly wealthy enough farmers are diversifying into unknown territory here and are planting salt tolerant crops ... dates, yes date palms. Also they showed the CSIRO cover grasses for salty soils to prevent erosion were dying from too much salt ... not even the engineered grasses can take it.
Sad fact is the earth is suffering but the election is about tax breaks for pensioners and child care, the winner may be the one who gives the voter most bucks back.