a series of sudden and catastrophic ecosystem shifts that have occurred re cently across Australia.
e and extreme weather events, are overwhelming ecosystems? natural resilience."
othingness, except excess heat, so no one really cares just yet.
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xplanation of why agriculture never got going in Australia.
the Pacific, but there are other things going on.
t up farms to the northe of that line. The farms were abandoned a few years later, when much less rain fell in subsequent years.
e multi-decadal changes in climate isn't yet known, but they do make life d ifficult for farmers.
Jared Diamond is a laughing stock within the plant science community, he ha s no credibility there. Archaeologists know now the aborigines permanently altered the climate of Australia with their large scale burning of forests to create more grasslands, and modern weather models have confirmed their b urning caused delayed and erratic monsoon seasons, generally making the pla ce drier than it was prior to their arrival.