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As an Australian, I’m calling bulls**t on this video. Many claims are made, but no sources for those claims are provided. It sounds like someone’s fantasy, rather than a genuine plan.
Make sure to get Miyawaki forest method style….companies that cut trees should totally adopt this method. When replanting trees at least if it were the law lol
You should watch bindoon creek, an how it all started, this older guy turned a deserted bit of landscape into a flourishing wetland, idk how his work isn't more published, it went from once a dried up creek to an almost river now, he manages to somehow keep his entire property green with moisture buildup under the soil in the middle of a drought out in the harsh country
Pretty sure we can fix that by growing salt tolerant plants to lower the water table. Then rain, when we get it, will flush the salt from the soil. Then other plants will be able to grow. The more trees we grow, the more consistent rain will become. Trees can create their own rain by transpiration. It will take time, but it is definitely achievable.
Water usage from the artisan basin is pretty much on the limit, as noted in the video there are some initiatives to conserve water, however it won't be anything near enough to green the outback
3:02 What you are referring to is the Bradfield project. It has been on the table since the 1920s and science didn't deem it unviable back then, politics and finances did. Only now has our current state Premier, Anastacia Palazschuk put the foot down and put this project into the start of construction as a "now or never" project due to the constant increases of cost. The plan is to redirect the water from the gulf areas down towards the south west to then allow the water to flow down rivers that went through drought due to El Nino in the 2010s, such as the Warrego and Condamine rivers.
I heard that the previous attempt failed because evaporation rates hadn't been miscalculated.. They've made great strides since then. I do hope so- yours A well wushing Pommy bast..d visitor from the 70's.
How many million tons of oranges did riverina farms dump last week because they had minor blemishes and the supermarkets rejected them , in favor of unblemished ones imported from China?
Please tell me how any million tons rather than leaving it all up in the air, otherwise it is a pointless thing to say. Come on, how many million tons.
This will be a disaster unless some highly experienced folks such as Geoff Lawton and Alan Savory are involved. Irrigation agriculture in Outback Australia will lead to a huge salinity problem. Folks would be best to go with Syntropic Agroforestry or the Alan Savory method, if they did that, this entire country could be a lush paradise within just a few years!
Monocropping causes the soil to deteriorate. Are soil restoration practices being put to use? Australia has a great tradition of Permaculture; these biodiverse farms are highly productive and grow nutrient dense, organic produce. Think about sustainability and health, not just profit!
Just imagine what would happen if we piped our grey water into the outback to be used for irrigation instead of wasting it by pumping it into the oceans.
Employ various low tech methods to keep the water on the land longer. Giant Swales, and retention ponds connecting very slow and curving streams and rivers. Try not to loose any of the seasonal rains to runoff. Build "leaky" dams in dry creek beds to catch and hold and let the water catch and hold on down the creek bed, and cut paths for the overflow to vent sideways into shallow streams. Planting rushes and water tolerant trees along the creek to encourage the area around the creeks to store carbon in the root of complex creek ecosystems will give the area an appearance of a temperate climate and will reduce the heat and wind destruction of the land.
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I think it’d be way easier to just replant Victoria and NSW deforested areas that have been turned into cattle farms, and use that cattle farm land to create tree plantations to slow deforestation and plant fruit trees. And then either decrease the amount of cattle farms or move the, into more arid areas and natural grasslands so they won’t have to destroy trees to house cows and sheep. Turning dessert into forest is near impossible.
That would be terrible. Grasslands actually remove more carbon than forests . But planting more trees everywhere helps including cities but reducing the amount
As carbon in the atmosphere slowly rises our inland desert are getting greener,we are getting higher rainfall and grass lands are thriving.There is so much bs being taught in out university's about our climate and environment which is alarmist and incorrect
There is myth that "Australia Felix " was covered in trees. It just isn't so. I cannot remember his name, but an ecologist, worried about tree loss used paintings and photos of landscape of early Australia to try and set some sort of benchmark for the amount existing from the 1800 20000 To his consternation his research discovered that the forests the greenies and other talk about never existed, and the reason was that Aboriginal people needed grassed areas with a band of tree around them. The kangaroos were eating grass in the middle, the trees shielded the hunters. Yes, their were trees but they were in large rings around marsupial pasture and along water courses, not as thick forests. NB Thisapplies for the western plains of Victoria NSW and SA.
55% of Australia is used for farming most of that grazing.... Australia produces enough food for about 80 million people. 18% of Australia is desert, but 30 to 35 is classified as semiarid. 70% of Australia is grassland 12% to at best 17% is open woodlands and forest...
Its an idea I had as a kid when I was 10yrs old. Getting water to the middle isnt impossible. Salt water is already there. Keeping the water there and making it rainforest is a long term goal. If you don't know what your are doing and know nothing about agriculture then this is all a very hard thing to think about. However in 500- 1000 years the sun will kill most plants so must get into space quick.
One of the biggest lies told to Australians is that the original inhabitants were some kind of noble land stewards, the reality is they burnt down everything in sight over the course of 50,000 years and turned a forested continent into mostly desert.
Down here in Tasmania there has been a boom in poly tunnels. Raspberry,strawberries blue berries and blackberry. The locals don’t work there though, that’s for the islanders all around Australia. The local Tasmanian couldn’t stand the warm in the tunnels or the pay which is per kg😢
Yes it would. That is the Bradfield plan. The large body of water would create rainfall in the desert. Many scientists say it would work......just too much bloody red tape and Green party ruining things.
It amuses me that the commentator talks about Australia doing this or that, as if somehow the government "owns" the agricultural industry, like in China. The truth is that our agriculture is owned and managed by thousands of small and large concerns. There is no one size fits all, and it is driven by market forces and sustainable viability. In South Australia I led a project to cap the Artesian Bores in the Lake Eyre region - some owners said yes, others said no even though a mining company picked up the tab. Australian farmers are fiercely independent and will not be pushed around by government, or anyone else.
@@HenriHattar What do they have to do with the price of eggs? We have some of the most caring progressive primary producers in the world. - and governments of your persuasion are doing their best to destroy them. The outback is dry and dusty red because it is in a geographic zone in the southern hemisphere that mirrors that in the north. In the north you have the Sahara, the Gobi, the Arabian and Sinai Peninsulas, in Oz we have a strip of country 1400 kiilometres wide from the west coast to the Great dividing Range. Man didn't make it what it is, nature did..
@@davidstokes8441 We live in times where nature can be changed and legislation ro provide better outcomes and voted on by a people who are well informed would be a start instead of emulating you by burying their collective heads in the sand.
I saw somewhere the biggest issue is the mountain range running down the east coast. Rain comes from the east and gets blocked by mountains 'causing' deserts on the west side of the mountain range. Sustainable farming is definitely becoming important as more and more people are showing the long term benefits to the land. Beyond that, the video was just a lot of wishful thinking.
I live 200km west of the great dividing range in southernQueensland, it is a 600 mm annual average rainfall where I live , most of our weather systems move from west to east , low level moisture is pushed westward from the eastern sea board into these systems triggering rainfall, biggest problem is the erradic nature of the rainfall and sometimes the intensity, I'm over 60 years old and it's been like that all my life
There is some good thoughts at the core but how they are capitalizing on this resource is a problem. What they're proposing will exacerbate salty water/land problems. The Aussie government needs to quit these stupid grand plans and opt for more practical ones. The farmers need to quit the conventional monoculture/annual/chemical/bare earth model as well. They need more frequent, localized and decentralized rainwater harvesting solutions. This puts rainwater in the ground where plants need it without leaving it as vulnerable to evaporation. If they utilized local plants, or plants naturally well-adapted to the challenging drought/flood conditions, the Asian markets would use that. Asians are very adaptable to incorporating new foods and do it well in abundance. Like your commentary on this subject. Glad it avoided being duped by the government's faulty solution. One thing your video missed is that their aquifer is spitting out water that is salty and it is harming irrigation/conventional crops, among other things .
@@theprimest Think that farmers need to be taught the benefits of polycultures, healthy soil biota, localized rainwater harvesting, etc. Big businesses (especially) ought to be discouraged from exploitative land practices.
20% increase of vegetation and precipitation over the last 40 years due to CO2 fertilization has greened Australia significantly. The so called "negative effects of climate change" are amazingly good for Australia. No doubt, formerly marginal agricultural areas are now productive, profitable and financially rewarding. Eventually property prices will reflect the REALITY on the ground, despite the negative propaganda pouring out of mainstream media and our "highly respected" politicians.
This was put forward by the boss of Visy they were going to match dollar for dollar to redirect and capture water from the wet season. It can be done but do governments and people really want to do it? We only have one earth we have got to do something. We need to be much smarter with what we got. Very interesting. 🇦🇺👍🍺
Flooding Lake Eyre with sea water could give Eastern Australia a rain harvest to its eastern and surrounding lands. It is a salt lake, and is approximately 10 meters below sea level. The rivers flowing to it would be backed-up and water dry land all around it.
Have you noticed that when Lake Eyre naturally floods, something that happens about once a decade, there is no flush of rainfall to the East and into NSW. That’s because the evaporation is not as a single intense bolus but rather a slow trickle which does not lead to cloud formation and rainfall. Flooding would produce the same inadequate response. It needs something different to produce rainfall.
The greening of the red centre sounds good in hollwood fairytales. Just remember that much of the enviroment has evolved over many thousands of years to be the way it is.
If they put seawater into lake eyre as it is lower than sea level then evaporation would increase in the area and produce more rainfall as well as keeping the temperature lower in the middle of Australia
Had Australia been a Chinese colony back in the 1400s it would've happened by now and Australia would have half a billion Chinese living in it today.. Red China and New China would quite literally own the world or atleast control most of it's ocean's..
@@paulfri1569 Actually Australia had been discovered by Chinese long before Captain Cook as hinted in Chinese literature. There are also Chinese shipwrecks along the coasts but the news were swiftly suppressed by Australian media. China do not and have not establish colonies anywhere
Australia (where I live) is far too dry for this to work. We produce and live on the continent's coasts. Only a very small percentage of us live inland and it's a harsh life.
It's very true I wish nothing best for the Australian people I do believe because of Australia's geography is the reason why the US became the US and is why Australia just didn't get to the level of the US. The US is rich in resources and has a less harsher environment
My suggestion plant Ritha, Shikekai(soap 🧼 trees),Jackfruit jamun Imali shamali.Gambhir pilkhan maulashri semal palash pangara mango banyan pilkhan neem .karanj Sita ashok rubber all r tall Indian trees 🌳 but its fruits r useful
Why I wished Indian's had settled the North of Australia as it's very similar climate to South India. With Indian knowledge Australia could be New India 🎉🎉
in India we have trees give averagely 80to 85% oxygen giving plants like neem papal banyan bael mostly around temples .make seed pellets and throw edges to core desert.
What we should do is purify and pump our sewerage into the desert. Grow trees to help induce rainfall. Then section it into farm land We need trees to slow wind so when it rains it slows the weather down so it will allow more rain to fall in an area rather than blow fast across the land scape
Try to convert maximum regions desert into lush green forest by planting tall spreading shadows various useful trees 🌳 suitable for Soil&climate of the regions such as Rohida. Babool gunda ardu jackfruit peeple banyan jamun mango Shalmali etc.These plants seen in Rajasthan desert
@@Sanyu-Tumusiime Finally someone with some sense. NSW water capturing & logging is killing the East coast of Australia's ecosystem & no one speaks of it. It angers me that Aboriginals do nothing about it.
Farming is not greening !!! No planting forests, just farms & It will no longer be public land !!! And they will kill all the native desert flora & fauna !!! Also they'll drain all the water meant for our Eastern forests, it'll be an ecological disaster !!!
First start planting growing suitable for Soil&climate of the regions from sea coast using sea water 🌊 .When tree 🌳 attain sufficient height move inside, repeat the project, Make whole Australia land covered with lush green forest, Will increase the income, promote tourism ,generate employment.
Hopefully this can be achieved. Australia Greened and forested will help keep planet earth cool especially when the sun is close to the earth 🌎 during it's revolution around the sun.
AI generated script that used the wiki page as its entire data set after a troll had stripped that page of anything interesting. dude was banking on Australians to clarify this crap for free in the comments.
For Australia to succeed and the world for that matter what's needed is The World Economic Forum and its agents within governments to be jailed for treason.
I have lived more than half a century in this outback. I have four years agricultural and animal husbandry education. I have rural industry experience. I have learned to understand nature in this continent from traditional first nation Australians, and in their languages, particularly Dhuwal. For eight years, I operated a 4WD safari into Kakadu National Park. i have written books on the outback environment and management thereof. And I say these fools are delusional and corrupt.
Because evaporation is a problem with storing water above ground why not build underground water storage facilities (the Romans did it over a thousand years ago) that will hold the water that floods the outback intermittently and then use it irrigate the land in times of drought?
εχεις μια περιοχη περιπου στο κεντρο που ονομαζετε /αρτεσιανα=πηγαιο αναβλυζων νερο, εκει ηταν η μεγαλυτερη πηγη νερου στον πλανητη γη ισως μετα τον νειλο και ετσι την ονομασαν οι ελληνες πριν βγει ο ηλιος απο την ανατολη για πρωτη φορα τωρα στερεψε μαζι και ολη η αυστραλια εαν πας στο κεντρο αυτης της περιοχης και κτυπησης μεγαλη γεωτρηση ισως κατι να εμεινε ακομη απο την συσωρευση αλλα εαν δεν βρεις νερο θα βρεις αλατι!
I think the idea of greening inner Australia is a load of rubbish. The centre of Australia is one big salt pan. Poor soil quality and lots of water will further degrade the desert country and it will not get any greener.
One horrible aspect of Australian agriculture is the inhumane treatment of livestock for export..they are kept in horrible conditions during transport which results in unnecessary suffering and countless deaths. Smh
@@asha8443 Obviously you know nothing about what you are talking about. Have you actually seen it personally first hand or just listened to someone else's propergander?
Asian populations aren't 'increasing boundlessly' they are shrinking very rapidly. Japan's replacement rate is around 0.7, South Korea is around 0.6 and China is set for a demographic collapse too, even though reliable stats are hard to come by.
May be they could employ a thousand farmers with there seeders for afew months ?pick somspot and seed it start of with 10 000 000 hectares. Use the water from lake angle instead ov letting it all run into the sea we need another?ERNY BRIDGE
I liked it when we sold less to china. We actually sold domestically making cheap food for a few years then China got its way and prices increased because of export.
Nearly all the Murray Darling Basin and Great Artesian Basin area is either grain growing and livestock production or small crops with irrigation already , apart from getting more water for irrigation what purpose would there be in directing more water down these river systems, there is no way to green the interior of Australia it's just to big of an area. Why not develop the northern parts of Australia where the water is, providing the soils are suitable, which maybe the limiting factor
The Irrigation areas that we have created we seen as successful at the time & have lead to adverse impacts elsewhere. Especially in protracted droughts. ie: Murry Irrigation Area (MIA) & Ord Irrigation Scheme. Yes, they produce food. But the damage to the native areas, the reduction of water flow to the wetlands (which can cause acidic water billabongs. The drop in the underground water table making it harder for native plants to survive the drought, has all lead to damage to the local area & an increase in desertification, Plus a proliferation of non-native species & pests. So while there is a significant move in the NT to grow cotton. It is as popular as poo on toast & the approvals reak of corruption.
This is beyond far from the truth, about 20 minuets from where I live in Perth up in the hills, they have completely destroyed the land, the amount of Forrest area they have removed is actually sickening and concerning with actually how much they have wiped out, species of animals specially the black cockatoos, all 3 varieties to be exact have dropped dramatically in numbers an are facing extinction, plus it's all done the develop an build unaffordable houses that majority of people who live in this country an born here could never afford, it's beyond a joke, money's become the main priority to life an we treat it like it's god, making money more valuable than life, our governments went from working for the people to making a better society, to trying to turn itself into a profit gaining business
It is better they focus on having regenerative farming from the beginning and begin with small farms near human settlements first. Mega projects can cause mega blunders!
Developing Agriculture on sustainable ways ( please work with nature don’t destroy it) isn’t only an industry but also one of the foundations to the country be independent if others, if China or another supplier fails Australians will be ok 🤷♂️ if another country got a major problem Australia will be able to help that’s why is important any country try to sustain themselves like an “ecosystem”
How can you green Australian soil How will you water it takes years for anything to grow Not only that first nation people there land respect there sacred sites It will not be in are life time.
Let the Chinese have ago .is all au😢just talk about.if the Chinese can green the globe and the sahara can green there deserts WY we .because we?have polys haven't got a clue to busy taking over seas trips
Demographics say China is going to be half the size it was in a decade. Developing the means to mitigate the boom/ bust cycle are going to be a worthy investment regardless of who the market ends up being. Build it DURABLE like the pyramids and low maintenance, and you might have something. figuring out natural drainage flows and forming holding tanks with coffer dams every 2-12 km would hold surface runoff to let it soak into aquifers and make irrigation water available for crops. Keeping them shallow would allow plants to grow for shade, maybe mitigation the evaporation problem. Heck having those ponds would probably provide for more firebreaks and supply watter too when the dry is really dry.......
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As an Australian, I’m calling bulls**t on this video. Many claims are made, but no sources for those claims are provided. It sounds like someone’s fantasy, rather than a genuine plan.
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My reaction too. The commentator clearly knows nothing about agriculture. The entire video is an elaborate fantasy.
True never heard of any off this not ever
Report the video for false information. Its AI content
Make sure to get Miyawaki forest method style….companies that cut trees should totally adopt this method. When replanting trees at least if it were the law lol
I've lived in Australia all my life (57 as of 23 April 2024). Never heard of this.
If you understand how Australian governments work it will never happen.
So true . More likely to become a big contaminated hole in the ground
You should watch bindoon creek, an how it all started, this older guy turned a deserted bit of landscape into a flourishing wetland, idk how his work isn't more published, it went from once a dried up creek to an almost river now, he manages to somehow keep his entire property green with moisture buildup under the soil in the middle of a drought out in the harsh country
No mention of the great bane of Australian agriculture, salinity.
Camels love green stuff. Better get rid of them first.
Create Salt farms?
Pretty sure we can fix that by growing salt tolerant plants to lower the water table. Then rain, when we get it, will flush the salt from the soil. Then other plants will be able to grow. The more trees we grow, the more consistent rain will become. Trees can create their own rain by transpiration.
It will take time, but it is definitely achievable.
As a resident of Australia I can assure you with 100% certainty that the Australian government is so incompetent this will never happen.
We need a LNP government with a big majority so that the greens have NO say, otherwise its a no goer.
I've lived Down Under for 76 years and greening the Centre is all news to me. Nice idea though.
Me too, I've been here for sixty years.
Its called the bradford scheme
Water usage from the artisan basin is pretty much on the limit, as noted in the video there are some initiatives to conserve water, however it won't be anything near enough to green the outback
3:02 What you are referring to is the Bradfield project. It has been on the table since the 1920s and science didn't deem it unviable back then, politics and finances did. Only now has our current state Premier, Anastacia Palazschuk put the foot down and put this project into the start of construction as a "now or never" project due to the constant increases of cost. The plan is to redirect the water from the gulf areas down towards the south west to then allow the water to flow down rivers that went through drought due to El Nino in the 2010s, such as the Warrego and Condamine rivers.
Very interesting stuff
Thanks so much for watching catch you in the next one ;)
Yep that's the one
It's not just about the Water. The Soils need to be enhanced, the Outback is very poor quality.
I heard that the previous attempt failed because evaporation rates hadn't been miscalculated.. They've made great strides since then. I do hope so- yours A well wushing Pommy bast..d visitor from the 70's.
Mate, we can't even get a high speed train organised!
It would destroy real estate 💭
@@Pifagorass how?
As an Aussie, this is the first I am hearing of the plan!
How many million tons of oranges did riverina farms dump last week because they had minor blemishes and the supermarkets rejected them , in favor of unblemished ones imported from China?
Good point
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Please tell me how any million tons rather than leaving it all up in the air, otherwise it is a pointless thing to say. Come on, how many million tons.
Sounds like Australia needs to grow better oranges
how much ?
Good luck to you Australia with your farming projects.
This will be a disaster unless some highly experienced folks such as Geoff Lawton and Alan Savory are involved. Irrigation agriculture in Outback Australia will lead to a huge salinity problem.
Folks would be best to go with Syntropic Agroforestry or the Alan Savory method, if they did that, this entire country could be a lush paradise within just a few years!
Australia Is the best place to live.
Monocropping causes the soil to deteriorate. Are soil restoration practices being put to use? Australia has a great tradition of Permaculture; these biodiverse farms are highly productive and grow nutrient dense, organic produce. Think about sustainability and health, not just profit!
Great stuff you've mentioned here
Thanks so much for watching catch you in the next one ;)
Just imagine what would happen if we piped our grey water into the outback to be used for irrigation instead of wasting it by pumping it into the oceans.
That’ll be the day, who’s coming up with these brainstorms !!
Employ various low tech methods to keep the water on the land longer. Giant Swales, and retention ponds connecting very slow and curving streams and rivers. Try not to loose any of the seasonal rains to runoff.
Build "leaky" dams in dry creek beds to catch and hold and let the water catch and hold on down the creek bed, and cut paths for the overflow to vent sideways into shallow streams.
Planting rushes and water tolerant trees along the creek to encourage the area around the creeks to store carbon in the root of complex creek ecosystems will give the area an appearance of a temperate climate and will reduce the heat and wind destruction of the land.
Do you know how big Australia is
We cant even fix our roads
price of bananas (US$ per kg)
Seoul - 3.55
Sydney - 2.76
Tokyo - 2.58
Berlin - 1.71
Warsaw - 1.62
London - 1.57
Moscow - 1.47
Toronto - 1.46
Saint Petersburg - 1.24
Delhi - 0.81
Cairo - 0.42
Then I'd suggest moving out of Sydney. We're paying 1.38 up north.
@@MultiRationalThinker I have not checked banana's curvature ... that might account for so much difference.
I think it’d be way easier to just replant Victoria and NSW deforested areas that have been turned into cattle farms, and use that cattle farm land to create tree plantations to slow deforestation and plant fruit trees. And then either decrease the amount of cattle farms or move the, into more arid areas and natural grasslands so they won’t have to destroy trees to house cows and sheep. Turning dessert into forest is near impossible.
That would be terrible. Grasslands actually remove more carbon than forests . But planting more trees everywhere helps including cities but reducing the amount
Where will the soil come from ? I is mostly red sand
As carbon in the atmosphere slowly rises our inland desert are getting greener,we are getting higher rainfall and grass lands are thriving.There is so much bs being taught in out university's about our climate and environment which is alarmist and incorrect
That’s a strange idea. It would be far easier to leave the cattle where they are and reforest other areas. Sounds like you just don’t like cattle 😂
There is myth that "Australia Felix " was covered in trees. It just isn't so. I cannot remember his name, but an ecologist, worried about tree loss used paintings and photos of landscape of early Australia to try and set some sort of benchmark for the amount existing from the 1800 20000 To his consternation his research discovered that the forests the greenies and other talk about never existed, and the reason was that Aboriginal people needed grassed areas with a band of tree around them. The kangaroos were eating grass in the middle, the trees shielded the hunters. Yes, their were trees but they were in large rings around marsupial pasture and along water courses, not as thick forests. NB Thisapplies for the western plains of Victoria NSW and SA.
55% of Australia is used for farming most of that grazing....
Australia produces enough food for about 80 million people.
18% of Australia is desert, but 30 to 35 is classified as semiarid.
70% of Australia is grassland
12% to at best 17% is open woodlands and forest...
as an Australian, i see this as an absolute win.
We already export a shit ton of minerals so we dont need to worry about importing any for this
Its an idea I had as a kid when I was 10yrs old. Getting water to the middle isnt impossible. Salt water is already there. Keeping the water there and making it rainforest is a long term goal.
If you don't know what your are doing and know nothing about agriculture then this is all a very hard thing to think about. However in 500- 1000 years the sun will kill most plants so must get into space quick.
One of the biggest lies told to Australians is that the original inhabitants were some kind of noble land stewards, the reality is they burnt down everything in sight over the course of 50,000 years and turned a forested continent into mostly desert.
It's part of the noble savage myth.
Along with fighting each other, and sometimes Canabilism.
Down here in Tasmania there has been a boom in poly tunnels. Raspberry,strawberries blue berries and blackberry. The locals don’t work there though, that’s for the islanders all around Australia. The local Tasmanian couldn’t stand the warm in the tunnels or the pay which is per kg😢
Why not pump water from the northern rivers into the Great Artesian Basin, will it find its own level?
It will either evaporate or flow down the rivers and out to sea in South Australia
Yes it would. That is the Bradfield plan. The large body of water would create rainfall in the desert. Many scientists say it would work......just too much bloody red tape and Green party ruining things.
Every good idea is a light on Earth. ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Great news. Thanks.
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It amuses me that the commentator talks about Australia doing this or that, as if somehow the government "owns" the agricultural industry, like in China. The truth is that our agriculture is owned and managed by thousands of small and large concerns. There is no one size fits all, and it is driven by market forces and sustainable viability. In South Australia I led a project to cap the Artesian Bores in the Lake Eyre region - some owners said yes, others said no even though a mining company picked up the tab. Australian farmers are fiercely independent and will not be pushed around by government, or anyone else.
Have you heard of that small thing called legislation? how about referendum? You heard of them?
@@HenriHattar What do they have to do with the price of eggs? We have some of the most caring progressive primary producers in the world. - and governments of your persuasion are doing their best to destroy them. The outback is dry and dusty red because it is in a geographic zone in the southern hemisphere that mirrors that in the north. In the north you have the Sahara, the Gobi, the Arabian and Sinai Peninsulas, in Oz we have a strip of country 1400 kiilometres wide from the west coast to the Great dividing Range. Man didn't make it what it is, nature did..
@@davidstokes8441 We live in times where nature can be changed and legislation ro provide better outcomes and voted on by a people who are well informed would be a start instead of emulating you by burying their collective heads in the sand.
@@HenriHattar Oh Boy - so nature can be changed? That's what th Babylonians and Sumarians believed until salt wiped them out.
@@davidstokes8441 I suspect we have a degree more technical abilities now, although brain dead morons would not know that I suppose.
Australia must be having tall,useful 🌳 suitable to its regions
I saw somewhere the biggest issue is the mountain range running down the east coast. Rain comes from the east and gets blocked by mountains 'causing' deserts on the west side of the mountain range.
Sustainable farming is definitely becoming important as more and more people are showing the long term benefits to the land.
Beyond that, the video was just a lot of wishful thinking.
I live 200km west of the great dividing range in southernQueensland, it is a 600 mm annual average rainfall where I live , most of our weather systems move from west to east , low level moisture is pushed westward from the eastern sea board into these systems triggering rainfall, biggest problem is the erradic nature of the rainfall and sometimes the intensity, I'm over 60 years old and it's been like that all my life
People who don't live here don't realise just how big Australia is.
All of Europe. All of Continental USA.
Dream on...
Yep I agree
There is some good thoughts at the core but how they are capitalizing on this resource is a problem. What they're proposing will exacerbate salty water/land problems. The Aussie government needs to quit these stupid grand plans and opt for more practical ones. The farmers need to quit the conventional monoculture/annual/chemical/bare earth model as well.
They need more frequent, localized and decentralized rainwater harvesting solutions. This puts rainwater in the ground where plants need it without leaving it as vulnerable to evaporation.
If they utilized local plants, or plants naturally well-adapted to the challenging drought/flood conditions, the Asian markets would use that. Asians are very adaptable to incorporating new foods and do it well in abundance.
Like your commentary on this subject. Glad it avoided being duped by the government's faulty solution. One thing your video missed is that their aquifer is spitting out water that is salty and it is harming irrigation/conventional crops, among other things .
Very interesting 💯
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Think that farmers need to be taught the benefits of polycultures, healthy soil biota, localized rainwater harvesting, etc. Big businesses (especially) ought to be discouraged from exploitative land practices.
Oh absolutely thank you for this B uppy hope to see you in the next one :)
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You bet. I enjoy your comments,
The clip does touch on capatalising on flood waters ( does not explain how). Im not sure where the salty water comes in?
20% increase of vegetation and precipitation over the last 40 years due to CO2 fertilization has greened Australia significantly. The so called "negative effects of climate change" are amazingly good for Australia. No doubt, formerly marginal agricultural areas are now productive, profitable and financially rewarding. Eventually property prices will reflect the REALITY on the ground, despite the negative propaganda pouring out of mainstream media and our "highly respected" politicians.
And the water will come from where?
Desalination?
Northern Australia has over 1 million gigalitres of rainfall each year and 60% flows out to sea. Re route it to the artesian basin and hey presto!
It would be nice if Australia could green its Outback, but I don't believe it is possible to green the entire region.
That's awesome
As an Australian, I know that this will never happen. We do not have the decent politicians, or the decent voters.
I fully support this.....
amazing what british people achived
This was put forward by the boss of Visy they were going to match dollar for dollar to redirect and capture water from the wet season. It can be done but do governments and people really want to do it? We only have one earth we have got to do something. We need to be much smarter with what we got. Very interesting. 🇦🇺👍🍺
You said it Aloysius
Thanks so much for watching catch you in the next one ;)
And that does not include schoolboy schemes.
Flooding Lake Eyre with sea water could give Eastern Australia a rain harvest to its eastern and surrounding lands. It is a salt lake, and is approximately 10 meters below sea level. The rivers flowing to it would be backed-up and water dry land all around it.
Exactly
Great shout! Thanks so much for watching see you in the next one Timmy and Cinema :)
Have you noticed that when Lake Eyre naturally floods, something that happens about once a decade, there is no flush of rainfall to the East and into NSW. That’s because the evaporation is not as a single intense bolus but rather a slow trickle which does not lead to cloud formation and rainfall. Flooding would produce the same inadequate response. It needs something different to produce rainfall.
@petermarsh4993 you are exactly right flooding the inland would have little to no affect on rainfall, not sure why so many people think it would
@rogerjamespaul5528BS
The greening of the red centre sounds good in hollwood fairytales.
Just remember that much of the enviroment has evolved over many thousands of years to be the way it is.
Great video as always sounds great Australia would make a lot of its unused land if they do this!
Thanks so much man always a pleasure to have you here
Thanks so much for watching catch you in the next one ;)
If they put seawater into lake eyre as it is lower than sea level then evaporation would increase in the area and produce more rainfall as well as keeping the temperature lower in the middle of Australia
Heard it all before, indeed for over a century they have being saying it. When will it start, what actual projects have begun?
I would think of the CAROB TREE as a good specie to grow in the desert, it helps in feeding animals plus gives plenty of polen & honey.
Miyawaki forest style everybody….planting trees that is you should totally research what that is because it’s brilliant
It will help reduce global warming. Double benefit.
Best wishes to Australia big plans
Had Australia been a Chinese colony back in the 1400s it would've happened by now and Australia would have half a billion Chinese living in it today.. Red China and New China would quite literally own the world or atleast control most of it's ocean's..
@@paulfri1569 Actually Australia had been discovered by Chinese long before Captain Cook as hinted in Chinese literature. There are also Chinese shipwrecks along the coasts but the news were swiftly suppressed by Australian media. China do not and have not establish colonies anywhere
Australia (where I live) is far too dry for this to work. We produce and live on the continent's coasts. Only a very small percentage of us live inland and it's a harsh life.
It's very true I wish nothing best for the Australian people I do believe because of Australia's geography is the reason why the US became the US and is why Australia just didn't get to the level of the US. The US is rich in resources and has a less harsher environment
Thanks so much for watching:)
Catch you in the next one
@@theprimestlook who plant trees see always rain
how hard is it to just scrape a several-billion-dollar-worth channel of ocean water through the continent. there, no more treacherous outback.
My suggestion plant Ritha, Shikekai(soap 🧼 trees),Jackfruit jamun Imali shamali.Gambhir pilkhan maulashri semal palash pangara mango banyan pilkhan neem .karanj Sita ashok rubber all r tall Indian trees 🌳 but its fruits r useful
Why I wished Indian's had settled the North of Australia as it's very similar climate to South India. With Indian knowledge Australia could be New India 🎉🎉
The populations of Japan, South Korea, and China are declining.
Stupid idea.. it's salty very salty. High evaporation rate will only raise the salt content
It's true but I do think they have some ways round this thanks so much watching! Catch you in the next one Stephen :)
About time Australia does it. They have all ways to do it. China and the UN are doing it, why not Australia ?
We have enough minerals in the ground to keep us afloat for the next 100 years lol, we're very casual and not very forward thinking.
What has the UN got to do with the issue. The UN is captive to dictatorships and communist failures.
in India we have trees give averagely 80to 85% oxygen giving plants like neem papal banyan bael mostly around temples .make seed pellets and throw edges to core desert.
USA2.0 hmm not sure how to feel about that
What we should do is purify and pump our sewerage into the desert. Grow trees to help induce rainfall. Then section it into farm land We need trees to slow wind so when it rains it slows the weather down so it will allow more rain to fall in an area rather than blow fast across the land scape
Try to convert maximum regions desert into lush green forest by planting tall spreading shadows various useful trees 🌳 suitable for Soil&climate of the regions such as Rohida. Babool gunda ardu jackfruit peeple banyan jamun mango Shalmali etc.These plants seen in Rajasthan desert
without water those things ain't gonnna grow. you have to destroy the mountains on the east coast of australia
@@Sanyu-Tumusiime Finally someone with some sense. NSW water capturing & logging is killing the East coast of Australia's ecosystem & no one speaks of it. It angers me that Aboriginals do nothing about it.
Farming is not greening !!! No planting forests, just farms & It will no longer be public land !!! And they will kill all the native desert flora & fauna !!! Also they'll drain all the water meant for our Eastern forests, it'll be an ecological disaster !!!
First start planting growing suitable for Soil&climate of the regions from sea coast using sea water 🌊 .When tree 🌳 attain sufficient height move inside, repeat the project, Make whole Australia land covered with lush green forest, Will increase the income, promote tourism ,generate employment.
Covering land with 🌳 trees make regions cool, create catchment areas for clouds ☁️
Hopefully this can be achieved. Australia Greened and forested will help keep planet earth cool especially when the sun is close to the earth 🌎 during it's revolution around the sun.
I am an Australian living Australia and this is complete Bull Shit - its completely incorrect and ridiculous !
But what will happen to the creatures that live and thrive in the deserts and bushes of the outback?
Nothing, there is no such plan, merely an idea of some half wit or other
Who cares? Humans are more important than those creatures!
the lizards will be fine
AI generated script that used the wiki page as its entire data set after a troll had stripped that page of anything interesting.
dude was banking on Australians to clarify this crap for free in the comments.
Why don't they just use sea water to plant desert, it's not impossible any more
This sounds like 'a concept of a plan' not based in reality. From South Australia, never heard of it
For Australia to succeed and the world for that matter what's needed is The World Economic Forum and its agents within governments to be jailed for treason.
Now, if the USA would do the same in the southwest.
I have lived more than half a century in this outback. I have four years agricultural and animal husbandry education. I have rural industry experience. I have learned to understand nature in this continent from traditional first nation Australians, and in their languages, particularly Dhuwal. For eight years, I operated a 4WD safari into Kakadu National Park. i have written books on the outback environment and management thereof. And I say these fools are delusional and corrupt.
agreed!
Because evaporation is a problem with storing water above ground why not build underground water storage facilities (the Romans did it over a thousand years ago) that will hold the water that floods the outback intermittently and then use it irrigate the land in times of drought?
If there were only transparent solar panels you could plant under😔
εχεις μια περιοχη περιπου στο κεντρο που ονομαζετε /αρτεσιανα=πηγαιο αναβλυζων νερο, εκει ηταν η μεγαλυτερη πηγη νερου στον πλανητη γη ισως μετα τον νειλο και ετσι την ονομασαν οι ελληνες πριν βγει ο ηλιος απο την ανατολη για πρωτη φορα τωρα στερεψε μαζι και ολη η αυστραλια εαν πας στο κεντρο αυτης της περιοχης και κτυπησης μεγαλη γεωτρηση ισως κατι να εμεινε ακομη απο την συσωρευση αλλα εαν δεν βρεις νερο θα βρεις αλατι!
For sure, the place is long overdue some comprehensive terraforming.
I think the idea of greening inner Australia is a load of rubbish.
The centre of Australia is one big salt pan. Poor soil quality and lots of water will further degrade the desert country and it will not get any greener.
Only way this can happen is to duct seawater and deploy small scale reactors to desalinate it into fresh water.
Or do a simple sand filter and let it rip solar pump. Can dilute it with treated sewage, grow salt friendly plants
For this to happen the govt would actually have get off their back side and think more than 4 years ahead 😂
What about natural greening not capital food growing.needs large trees"shade".bio diversity for who ?
This is also in the mind of the projects I'm sure
Thanks so much for watching catch you in the next one ;)
One horrible aspect of Australian agriculture is the inhumane treatment of livestock for export..they are kept in horrible conditions during transport which results in unnecessary suffering and countless deaths. Smh
@@asha8443 These days the stock travel in air conditioned comfort.
In Australia on the whole the animals get treated better than people.
@@JackoMurrenji i ask you the same question
@@asha8443 Obviously you know nothing about what you are talking about. Have you actually seen it personally first hand or just listened to someone else's propergander?
@@verosso2788 Sorry if it seemed l was arguing against. I agree with you. l was asking the person with the original comment.
Asian populations aren't 'increasing boundlessly' they are shrinking very rapidly. Japan's replacement rate is around 0.7, South Korea is around 0.6 and China is set for a demographic collapse too, even though reliable stats are hard to come by.
They must diverse their agriculturelal to crops types that are suited to dry conditions like, the aloe range
May be they could employ a thousand farmers with there seeders for afew months ?pick somspot and seed it start of with 10 000 000 hectares. Use the water from lake angle instead ov letting it all run into the sea we need another?ERNY BRIDGE
Australia is tryna green anything, they’d never, very few of us value that
We cant build a reliable metro system yet we tend to do this feat.
What they call desert in Australia we call it Phoenix & Vegas in America
I liked it when we sold less to china. We actually sold domestically making cheap food for a few years then China got its way and prices increased because of export.
Nearly all the Murray Darling Basin and Great Artesian Basin area is either grain growing and livestock production or small crops with irrigation already , apart from getting more water for irrigation what purpose would there be in directing more water down these river systems, there is no way to green the interior of Australia it's just to big of an area. Why not develop the northern parts of Australia where the water is, providing the soils are suitable, which maybe the limiting factor
The Irrigation areas that we have created we seen as successful at the time & have lead to adverse impacts elsewhere. Especially in protracted droughts. ie: Murry Irrigation Area (MIA) & Ord Irrigation Scheme.
Yes, they produce food. But the damage to the native areas, the reduction of water flow to the wetlands (which can cause acidic water billabongs. The drop in the underground water table making it harder for native plants to survive the drought, has all lead to damage to the local area & an increase in desertification, Plus a proliferation of non-native species & pests.
So while there is a significant move in the NT to grow cotton. It is as popular as poo on toast & the approvals reak of corruption.
This is beyond far from the truth, about 20 minuets from where I live in Perth up in the hills, they have completely destroyed the land, the amount of Forrest area they have removed is actually sickening and concerning with actually how much they have wiped out, species of animals specially the black cockatoos, all 3 varieties to be exact have dropped dramatically in numbers an are facing extinction, plus it's all done the develop an build unaffordable houses that majority of people who live in this country an born here could never afford, it's beyond a joke, money's become the main priority to life an we treat it like it's god, making money more valuable than life, our governments went from working for the people to making a better society, to trying to turn itself into a profit gaining business
they're not worried about greening it,they just give it away or sell it off to other countries.
Give the land back to it's rightful owners that's the right thing to do
It is better they focus on having regenerative farming from the beginning and begin with small farms near human settlements first. Mega projects can cause mega blunders!
Great fantasy !! Never heard of it in Australia.
Developing Agriculture on sustainable ways ( please work with nature don’t destroy it) isn’t only an industry but also one of the foundations to the country be independent if others, if China or another supplier fails Australians will be ok 🤷♂️ if another country got a major problem Australia will be able to help that’s why is important any country try to sustain themselves like an “ecosystem”
How can you green Australian soil
How will you water it takes years for anything to grow
Not only that first nation people there land respect there sacred sites
It will not be in are life time.
Is that before or after we sell it to the Chinese first.
Let the Chinese have ago .is all au😢just talk about.if the Chinese can green the globe and the sahara can green there deserts WY we .because we?have polys haven't got a clue to busy taking over seas trips
It cool down the south pole which is important.
I can't keep my 1200 square metres of Australia green. Good luck.
Underground water are resource, can be utilised in a sustainable manner, with minimal impact to
environment...
except that they are using it faster than it refills and fracking can contaminate the whole system
Demographics say China is going to be half the size it was in a decade. Developing the means to mitigate the boom/ bust cycle are going to be a worthy investment regardless of who the market ends up being. Build it DURABLE like the pyramids and low maintenance, and you might have something. figuring out natural drainage flows and forming holding tanks with coffer dams every 2-12 km would hold surface runoff to let it soak into aquifers and make irrigation water available for crops. Keeping them shallow would allow plants to grow for shade, maybe mitigation the evaporation problem.
Heck having those ponds would probably provide for more firebreaks and supply watter too when the dry is really dry.......