Drought: Causes Effects Solutions by Don Campbell

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Scuffing to covers.

There is always a drought somewhere in Australia, a drought in which animals die of thirst and starvation or in which valuable crops and pastures wither. Drought losses are reflected in every pocket and bank account in the nation.

The author, a fourth-generation farmer, says 'It seems as though we have grown accustomed to a wickedness and a cruelty and a financial loss that in 500 years' time will cause the history readers to gasp in astonishment. They will know us as a people who seldom cared for the huge flocks they fed on or by whom they were made richer, when those same flocks perished and starved in their millions year after year after year.

This book lifts the lid on a dozen controversial drought issues, indicts the overdraft system of money lending for farmers and graziers, and is relentlessly critical of bad land management, but offers alternatives and solutions to some of the problems contained in the complex question of Australian droughts.

Contents:

• The cost of drought
• Why do we have droughts
• Our Rivers are drying up
• Let them die-it's cheaper
• Sheep are not camels
• Everyman's overdraft
• 'Water, water everywhere ... '
• How big should the haystack be?
• Building the haystack
• The weathermen
• Is irrigation the answer?
• Transport and marketing
• The desert army
• The plan to beat drought.