If we could harvest fresh water from Northern Australia I think perhaps Australia can be the most controlled food, fish & forest, tourist
and mining country on the planet. We can still have fossil fuels somewhere in the mix perhaps but not like we do now.
But should we play with nature by piping water down across the nation in a massive pipeline/channel system, its not unfeasable I think and has been touted before.
Just look at the press regarding the Murray River of late and the corrruption and water allocations between states & property owners.....it's an absolute joke. Compliance my a*se............ when there is money involved!
It just takes someone/everyone to stand up and vote/yell.
I genuinely think my generation may be the last unless we get our shite together by 2020-2025 at the latest and there are plenty of scientists who think the same.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/climate-scientists-speak-of-their-worst-fears/8631368
From 2011 which is a lifetime ago in the developments of climate change analysis
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_15/
Civilization developed during the Holocene, the interglacial period of the past 10,000 years during which global temperature and sea level have been unusually stable. Figure 1 shows two prior interglacial periods that were warmer than the Holocene: the Eemian (about 130,000 years ago) and the Holsteinian (about 400,000 years ago). In both periods sea level reached heights at least 4-6 meters (13-20 feet) greater than today.
In the early Pliocene global temperature was no more than 1-2°C warmer than today, yet sea level was 15-25 meters (50-80 feet) higher.
The paleoclimate record makes it clear that a target to keep human made global warming less than 2°C, as proposed in some international discussions, is not sufficient — it is a prescription for disaster. Assessment of the dangerous level of CO
2, and the dangerous level of warming, is made difficult by the inertia of the climate system. The inertia, especially of the ocean and ice sheets, allows us to introduce powerful climate forcings such as atmospheric CO
2 with only moderate initial response. But that inertia is not our friend — it means that we are building in changes for future generations that will be difficult, if not impossible, to avoid.
