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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    There is a theory the Roman Empire fragmented because climate change in northern Africa dried up the sources of the food on which Romans depended, since Italian farmers couldn't produce enough food to support the population, but I'm not sure about that.
    yes but not in the way you think. africia did used to be the bread basket of the romans but that continued after the empire fell.

    the roman empire collapsed due to (among other things) mass migration from germanic "barbarians". they were migrating due to climate change and the huns.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eevo View Post
    correct, and im in favor of doing this, hence why im so frustrated. cant do it in the local reserve due to greenies, cant do it a home due to council.
    You can reduce the fuel load, just not by playing with matches.
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    Slash the grass?

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    For sure that is all true but does not account for the current rate of change which is unprecedented in earth's history.
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    I'd refer you to my earlier post about the new Ice Age theory, the effect of CO2 on the Earth's long term climate cycles and John Gribbin's "The Climatic Threat". In short, the two theories are not incompatible. And NASA's website pretty clearly does state that global warming is human-driven:

    NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming

    And that website you linked to is rabid:

    "For more than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. But the space agency, for whatever reason, has chosen to let the man-made global warming hoax persist and spread, to the detriment of human freedom .... why deranged, climate-obsessed leftists have now begun to claim that we really only have 18 months left before the planet dies from an excess of carbon dioxide (CO2)."

    You know, until the Koch brothers got involved, climate science wasn't a political issue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    Climate change can certainly bring down civilisations. It appears that's why the Assyrian empire collapsed after 300 years - megadroughts caused famines. Could that be happening right now in good old Oz?

    Climate change may be behind fall of ancient empire, say researchers

    Climate change may be behind fall of ancient empire, say researchers | Science | The Guardian
    'Successful' civilisation for any length of time (decades, centuries) will lead to higher birth rates and lower death rates, which lead to much higher populations living in 'civilised' areas.

    Individuals in these civilised, population increasing areas will have expectations of a standard of living that may not be able to be met with a somewhat constant natural supply of resources.

    The resources in these areas (rainfall, etc) don't automatically change in line with the population growth so a problem is created.

    I'd suggest that population growth has caused a lot of problems in the past and does today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    You can reduce the fuel load, just not by playing with matches.
    no, cant even do that.
    and if we would, would take too long to do due to the size.

    Mick: its a forest, not grassland.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eevo View Post
    no, cant even do that.
    and if we would, would take too long to do due to the size.

    Mick: its a forest, not grassland.
    Two x 20 tonne dozers plus an anchor chain. Forest? What forest?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eevo View Post
    no, cant even do that.
    and if we would, would take too long to do due to the size.

    Mick: its a forest, not grassland.
    Geez, you must live on a big block.
    I could clear all vegitation and the house, then still be in the pub before the sun went down, with a 30 ton digger.
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