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“Mining” Australia

Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed By: Jared Diamond. “Mining” Australia. Who is Jared Diamond?. B.A. from Harvard University - Ph.D. in Physiology and biophysics From Cambridge University MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (Genius Award)

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“Mining” Australia

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  1. Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed By: Jared Diamond “Mining” Australia

  2. Who is Jared Diamond? • B.A. from Harvard University • - Ph.D. in Physiology and biophysics • From Cambridge University • MacArthur Foundation Fellowship • (Genius Award) • Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germs, and • Steel • Ornithology • - Geography UCLA

  3. Is the text biased? • Biologist, New Guinea • Director of U.S. affiliate of World Wildlife Fund • People

  4. Australia • Colony of Great Britain • Prisoners (39 shilling vs. 40 shillings) • What nice looking ground • Look like Great Brittan • (rabbits, foxes, birds)

  5. Population • First World Country (20 million) • 1950’s wanted population increase (Abandon White Australian Policy) - 50 million, 8 million - 58% urbanized (no medium)

  6. Required land clearance • Sheep (wool) • Kangaroo meat

  7. “Mining” • Soil (nutrients) • 1) Volcanic activity • 2) Glaciers • 3) Uplifts

  8. Salinization • ENSO (the El Niño Southern Oscillation) • Irrigation Salinization • Irrigation/ Sprinklers • DrylandSalinization • Rain • Underground River

  9. Fish • Risk of Collapse • Low nutrients • Overharvesting

  10. Pest Problem “Many of these pests are enormously expensive in the damage that they cause and in the annual control costs that they necessitate every year: e.g., a few hundred million dollars per year for rabbits, $600 million for flies and ticks of livestock, $200 million for a pasture mite, $2.5 billion for other insect pests, over $3 billion for weeds, and so on.”

  11. Economy • Is it needed • The rest of the world • Giving it up • Concern of the people • Hope

  12. Question Do you think other First World countries will ever be affected by their environment like Australia has? What action can be taken to preserve agriculture here and around the world?

  13. Bibliography http://www.web-l.com/cuteanimals/bunny/ http://www.interestingfacts.org/facts-images/kangaroo.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/explorers/jared-diamond/ http://browse.deviantart.com/photography/?q=family&order=9&offset=24#/d1ba9za http://browse.deviantart.com/photography/people/weddings/?qh=&section=&q=pre+nup#/d359ib0 http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=we+all+will+disolve#/d31oncu http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=agriculture#/d1y05o6 http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=luck+on+a+stick#/dej6t4 http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=baby+sheep#/d1udbx6 http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=baby+kangaroo#/d1ennug http://browse.deviantart.com/photography/people/children/?order=9&offset=48#/d1kqzoa

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