Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Australia’s insane plan to green the Outback" video.

  1. There are due to geographic layout, huge quantities of monsoon rain fall all running to the oceans. Combining solar power with pumping water inland would allow improving feasible plant growth expansion. Artesian water while used and existing in huge volume already past use of bore water for early farming has had dramatic effect on level, drying up many bores. Artesian water is not possible to sustain greening inland. Some existing rivers like Coopers Creek start in far north inland Queensland and given wet years can fill the huge lake Ayre that is all well below sea level. If regular redirected coastal rainwater can be redirected, that huge area of water could exist permanently not just occasional wet times, and dry in the many drought periods. Once greater plant growth of forests will create increased rain fall as well. Supplementing any pumped coastal waters. Quite likely in long term having capacity to alter the entire Australian internal climate. Also to be considered that Aboriginals have practices burn hunting it is indicated much of the now more baren inland was forested in the past but changed to sparce scrub and gras/ steppe country by the past millennia of the burn practices. The Kununurra and huge lake Argyle in WA north farming largely failed due to mono culture originally used, as pests took over. Now it is a huge vegetable farming success as now very mixed crops are used allowing control over pests, that previously wiped out the cotton crops for example first planned.
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  2. Reef is suffering from farm run off and increased silt and fertiliser from baren farm land that once was dense tropical forest. The forest had clean water runoff, farms plowed, fertilised all the time, cause considerable muddying of rivers. That silt destroys much of the reef.
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