[LINK] How Long Will Australia Be Livable?

[Tom Worthington]

On 10/1/20 12:20 pm, Kim Holburn wrote:

> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/only-way-confront-australias-wildfires/604546/

How Long Will Australia Be Livable? ... Bianca Nogrady January 7, 2020

>> ... Australian and New Zealand Army Corps—the ANZACs—staged an
>> ingenious escape from the shores of Gallipoli in 1915 ...

Citizen soldier William Holmes commanded the the last Anzac troops to 
leave Gallipoli. Less well known is that he had already planned the 
successful amphibious occupation of German New Guinea at the start of 
WW1. His previous job was planting mines in Sydney Harbor to stop a 
seaborne invasion, so he was well placed to lead such an invasion. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holmes_(Australian_general)

The ADF now have an amphibious capability, some of which was used for 
the bush-fire emergency. The ability of the ADF to carry out evacuations 
by sea is not a happy accident, but something it was trained and 
equipped for. Australia can similarly plan and equip for more extreme 
conditions caused by global warming.

>> To abandon parts of this land ...

No need to abandon the land completely, just use it more appropriately. 
There are precedents where Australian land use practices had to be changed.

As is done with mining settlements, it may be necessary to have some 
towns mothballed in the years, or decades, when conditions are 
unfavorable, and opened when conditions are good. The Internet can help 
with this, by providing some of the services in the lean times.


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