The Australian government is to pay 1,000 farmers $150,000 or more to leave the land, at a time when more than half of all farming land is covered by government “drought” subsidies. It is not yet possible to say definitively that this is “global warming in action”, but it certainly looks awfully like it, even given that much of Australian farming has never been environmentally viable anyway.
The Australian farmers are just lucky they are in a First World money with cash to give away.
The National Farmers Federation is valiantly proclaiming that the land won’t be left “empty” – of course it won’t, the roos and emus are already there, and will be finding their own balance.
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