Julian Cribb Predicts “Diabolical” Future for World’s River Basins
source: http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/video-julian-cribb-predicts-diabolical-futu...
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Video by Aaron Jaffe for Circle of Blue
Consider Australia’s Murray-Darling, where iconic forests of red gum trees have gone skeletal from thirst. In small towns across the basin, farmers and residents worry their livelihoods may soon share the fate of their beloved gum trees. Cribb, also a professor of science communication at the University of Technology in Sydney, thinks the time has come to manage river basins with efficiency and environmental sensitivity. Farmers, whom he cites as primary managers, must rapidly begin sharing good ideas on a global scale
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SeaJade
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Excellent talk by Julian Cribb, and yes, having lived in Australia as a young person, the changes in climate, temperature and dryness are startling. It was already a hot and rugged land (generally speaking - its a big country). To realize one of the jewels of the nation - the Murray-Darling basin has dried to this extent is alarming (putting it mildly). It is not just this basin that is affected, its all over the country.
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JanforGore
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http://current.com/items/91082414_water-in-crisis-future-wars.htm
Interview on the potential for conflict.
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JanforGore
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JanforGore
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And here I clicked on this because I actually thought there was substantial conversation on the topic.
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Logos51891
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I've always wanted to used the word diabolical in a sentence. I think he did too.
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