Australia is the safest place during a global catastrophe, study suggests

heavensteeth•13 minutes ago

While it doesn't represent modern war at all, of course, I've always enjoyed the knowledge that Australia was bombed very little during WW2 despite "neighboring" the Axis Japan simply because it was too far away and planes of the era could not reach it. The only capital city that saw aerial warfare was Darwin because it's the only one on the north coast.

cregy•about 3 hours ago

What do you mean? It's either on fire, under water, or actively trying to kill you.

Australia is gods apocalypse testing ground....

thundergolfer•about 2 hours ago

Work in USA for exposure to good tail outcomes, have Aus citizenship as a refuge from v. bad tail outcomes.

angry_octet•23 minutes ago

It's the garden variety violence in the States that gets you.

recursivecaveat•about 2 hours ago

On The Beach was right I guess huh

ronsor•about 4 hours ago

You may be safe from a catastrophe, but you'll never be safe from the wildlife.

defrost•18 minutes ago

I am the wildlife.

woggy•about 3 hours ago

I thought Australia was especially sensitive to climate risks

angry_octet•7 minutes ago

We are. But we are also experienced at dealing with temperature extremes. The problem is that the 45C temperatures we regularly experience, and Europe just had for the first time, are going to be 50C and on top of prolonged drought and flood.

The farm sector is at least 50% climate denialists, pretending drought and flood are events are unchanging and anyway, nothing can be done. At the same time they actively block HV transmission, wind, solar and battery projects. They are against fracking on their land/aquifer but pro fracking and coal.

For a long time Government has shielded farmers from consequences, but we have a lot of marginal land that has been over-grazed, over-irrigated and over-fertilised, and we need to change vast areas back to wilderness and long term repair.

The biggest consequences will be for export destinations. Without the huge quantities of wheat and protein we export it will be very hard for poor and densely populated countries. We are already seeing the impacts of the fertiliser shortage. Oscillations in supply from war, politics, hoarding and climate panic will see costs rise sharply. We could make fertiliser from renewables, but it is hard to compete with Qatari gas when the SoH is open.

Australia is the safest place during a global catastrophe, study suggests

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