Comments by "thomas grabkowski" (@thomasgrabkowski8283) on "Why 95% of Australia is Empty" video.

There’s also some Australians who think Australia is full already
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And countries like Australia and New Zealand have quite low birth rate so natural growth isn’t going to be high
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American
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Well the thing in common is that they are all desert countries
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Midwestern USA is actually cold and wet, and not and dry. Cold because of high latitude. Wet because of Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. Great Lakes means lots of snow in winter and gulf means despite far inland, Midwest is humid during summer as the winds turn southerly meaning that when it gets hot, the heat is humid, not dry
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@TomLuTon The cold definitely plays a part. Just look at all the other Arctic and subarctic parts of the world. Northern Scandinavia, northern and eastern parts of Russia, Alaska, all extremely empty and sparsely populated
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@TomLuTon Scandinavia is also warmed by the Gulf Stream meaning the extreme cold sets in at higher latitudes than Canada
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What Australian and North American cities have in common is that they are largely built up after the car, unlike Europe for example
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@FeelingShred China trying it with its deserts, we should see how it goes
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Firstly, it’s extremely difficult if not near impossible to destroy a mountain range. Secondly, east coast where most live is gonna lose out since the mountains actually help trap rain for the east coast
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And the Outback is like in Arizona
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Actually those 3 countries could have some good high speed rail corridors. Victoria, NSW and southeast Queensland in Australia, Ontario-Quebec in Canada, and for USA, many good options
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@ChrisJohannsen Australia is also very hard to invade given the remoteness and climate
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@thomas316 Canada, UK and NZ have low birth rates too
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However, it would have a high gdp per capita as the Outback has tons of natural resources to mine and sell to the world
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@impacttoinfinity777 Probably Midwestern
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Forests still exist in Australia
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Or the tropical Canada
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@bigman1163 I'm saying Australia is like tropical version of Canada
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During the southern summer, generally the 15 hottest places in the world are all located in the Australian Outback
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@mcfcfan5 Well it’s winter in Southern Hemisphere now
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USA also took in tons of immigrants from countries like Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Scandinavian countries. They also brought in tons of slaves from Africa, and then after that huge influx of immigrants from Latin America. Also it’s older than Australia so much more time for their to be sustained period of high birth rates leading to lots of natural growth
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South America has Andes to trap the rain
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I think he did another video on plan to irrigate entire eastern half of Australia, piping water from the tropical rainforests of northern Queensland to interior regions of QLD, NSW and Victoria
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And it’s climate means lack of water. Also examples, Sahara desert is very empty, and the desert parts of countries like US and China are very empty compared to rest of country
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@mylesiswhite4122 It’s a good thing that none of the major parties support illegal immigration
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He also goes over why the tropical, non-desert part of Australia is also sparsely populated
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And I’ve heard some take regular plane commutes from Perth
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It won’t. You can’t engineer the climate really
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@MatthewBaka Basically Australia only had staple crops like wheat and domestic animals after Europeans brought them over
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However the problem is the birth rate in Australia has already dropped below replacement levels despite the population being small and it being a young country so it’s growth potential is a lot lower compared to other countries in similar timeframe of settlement and founding as compared to other countries which had hundreds of years of high birth rate driven growth which led to high population
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@danielthunder9876 Well most Australian immigrants come from Asia so Asian cuisine is a big thing
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