Hung Uncut Black Muslim Jew wrote on Oct 1^st, 2026 at 5:34pm:


You start by saying Australia, then morph to South eastern Australia. What credence do you claim?

Jasin wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2026 at 5:09pm:


I would suggest that Australia had been a desert continent for a period before the first humans walked this continent. We are advised that much of the continent was under water millions of years ago. And long before the continent had its first human inhabitant, the soils of the desert were so saline that it has taken hundreds of thousands of years with rainfall slowly washing the infertility away to be bareable for shrubs to grow.

My geography lessons from the 1990s have taught me that even with the burning of the forests and grasslands to chase out the animals for indigenous Australian hunters, the region could regenerate in a few years with new trees and shrubs growing in relatively fertile regions.

I hope that we can develop technology to control our climate drivers. But it is a little difficult to blame the ancestors of indigenous people of Australia for the dryness of the country.

Deforestation in Australia triggers dryland salinity by replacing deep-rooted native vegetation with shallow-rooted crops and pastures that use less water.  This imbalance reduces evapotranspiration, causing groundwater levels to rise and mobilise ancient salt deposits stored deep in the soil and regolith.

2025 was the worst year for federally approved deforestation in Australia in over a decade, with the government green lighting the destruction of more than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat.  This figure represents a 15-year high, marking a 15-year high that is more than double the amount approved in 2024 and over five times the amount from 2023.