Is it possible to terraform Australia with technologies being developed today?

The main issue I see with this is political. If anybody lives in Australia you will know what I mean.

Hopefully we will be able to develop systems that can maintain crops in arid lands (you guys have named afew good ideas already), unfortunately Australia is pretty fkn poor and probably wouldn't have enough money to sustain this, unless private enterprise swarmed the area.

Where I see the main issue is with alot he boongs complaining about "muh stolen land", the shit argument is basically still at the forefront of our contemporary political discussions. Unless it dies down and people stop caring about them (which I doubt will happen any time soon), there is no way they will let us take any of their indigenous land without a fight.

It's hard enough for us in some places as it is without interest groups getting up and arms (the spit is an example, on the gold coast where I live).

To get more CO2 from China? I thought you wanted the emissions lower and save the globe.

We don't even live on most of the currently inhabitable land, why would we need to terraform it. We could probably quite easily sustain a population >100 million

I don't think so. We have too many droughts. We'd need to fix the water problem.

Yes, Easily
Solar shades to cool the area down
mass desalination plants to get water there

>Australia is poor
Wtf are talking about
Australia is one of the richest countries in the world.
Kys

>world hunger
That doesnt exist, what you mean is African hunger due to blacks being incapable of resource management and population control.

THIS
even if brought enough food to africa, the population would simply explode and after one or two generations the starving would start again

It's obvious you know nothing about what you are talking about.
>incapable of resource management
Yes, literally disenfranchised from it.
Because "market liberalization" took all the resources and destoryed any remant of the emergent systems that used to provide on the way out. All to make shit to sell to retards like you, who in turn function as wage slaves and money laundries turning 'capital' into wealth for the global elite.

Engiqueers and their masters need to stay the fuck away from ecological systems.
You've done enough. Australia will only get more dry with fractured biogeochemical cycles and ecological systems. Aridification is a huge deal. The best possible thing we can do is maintain biodiversty that is already adapted to arid climates.
Literally retarded, think for once.

somebody post that ted talk where the guy figured out that simulating herd migrations with farm animals will turn deserts pack into grasslands and forests, and he had several photos that proved that it worked over teh course of years

thats literally the dumbest thing ive read on this board. Think before you type something stupid

Market liberalization would create an agricultural boom, you retard. Europeans should be eating African tomatoes.

Fucking redditors and their lies.

Internal investment is a fucking mess here and threatens to completely destroy the economy.

what?

Wouldn't turning low carbon absorbing grasslands into high density crops reduce emissions?
Most likely we will use this method.

Just need to rebuild the rain-forests and brush that the abos burnt down

They could, yes. Lots of water and manpower.

I'm sure tax reform could fix that problem

Internal investment in the housing bubble is going to fuck us.

Perovshit is a meme.

If we can get a human being to the moon then why haven't we ever sent humans to Australia?

Step 1, collect all that excess tropical rainfall on the northern bit of the continent and pipeline it south to drier climates.

Step 2, start planting forests in areas being irrigated by this transported rainwater, thus building up a shade providing canopy and means of soil water retention.

Step 3, pipe water further south as the forests take root, their presence alone will drop ground temperatures and raise humidity enough to allow natural rainfalls to increase.

Step 4, continue the process as far as collected rainwater supply can achieve, either call it mission accomplished or use nuclear power to desalinate water for cheap and continue.

Step ???, once ground temperatures across much of Australia drop, rainwater across the continent will increase, probably enough to keep the planted forest alive even if we shut off the water pumps. Continue pumping rainwater/desalinated water into Australia's deserts to form large artificial lakes which further increase total annual rainfall and act as reservoirs for agriculture.

>simulating herd migrations with farm animals will turn deserts pack into grasslands and forests,
Farm animals attract rain? I doubt that.

Market liberalization results in the destruction of ecological systems and the traditional agriculture they support, for timber, fish, minerals and fossil fuels. The natives are striped of liberty to freely live in their home and are not agents in this process. The freshly raped earth is planted with large scale monocultures that destory soil and are susceptible to famine and drought do to the loss of biodiversty. The nativies are given a penance for their economically forced labor if they are lucky enough not to be wiped out by paramilitary upon market liberalization, as is happening to the native congenese right now for example. The produce is taken to the international market supply chain. The profits are taken by the bankers and FDI'ers to build superyatchs and patronize their nanny-states. Or in the case of China the state just pillages by itself.
>market liberalization would result in an agricultural boom
That's busts into poverty and famine as has been clearly demonstrated many times over. The world bank makes its transactions quasi-transparent, and you can read all about it on its website. FDI is a different mater.
>redditors andbtheir lies.
I don't blame you for not being informed.
The power of propaganda isn't in what it says, it's what it prevents from being said. You hear a lot about starving Africans from the corporate media but the circumstances are always obfuscated.

>Farm animals attract rain? I doubt that.

No it doesn't. What it's supposed to do is add organic matter and reseed barren dirt via the droppings, which helps what rainfall there is to infiltrate rather than runoff.

I though herd animals disturbed the top soil?

empowering indeginous groups was a mistake

>africa
>australia
>israel

Native Americans said the same thing about their land 200 years ago. You guys need Australian Manifest Destiny

Found the TED talk. The guy has a few decent points, but overall he seems like a hack
>ONLY ONE OPTION, NO ALTERNATIVE EXCEPT LIVESTOCK
>look at these before and after pictures
I could tell it was bullshit from his New Mexico before and after photos. Most of the Mountain West/high desert in the U.S. was arid or semi-arid a couple hundred years ago. Only after people intensively irrigated and started farming the land did it get greener. Even during drought periods, a lot of the richer soil will revert to arid dirt within a few years. This guy doesn't even take natural conditions like droughts into account, and also neglects to mention that cattle weren't introduced to North America until about 400 years ago. There were almost no domesticated livestock in semi-arid regions until the early 1800s, and only wild bison and elk/deer roamed in herds like this guy is talking about. The Native Americans definitely didn't keep them as stock and manage their grazing though; they followed the herds across the plains and hunted when the herds were stopped. His argument that grazing has to be carefully and scientifically managed is pretty much unfounded.

Forgot the link if anyone is interested. Seems like this guy has the beginning of a cult following from people who don't understand ecology, but clap anyway
youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

oh so progress is bad?

Step 5, Australia is no longer full, import refugees

Bad troll is bad

Good luck with that, in reality these parts of Australia are a demonstration of what the rest of the world will look like in a few decades thanks to climate change.

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