How about this for an idea - bit controversial I know - but just imagine?

Question

We pull out of Iraq, move to African and ship all the inhabitants there off to the middle of Australia and build a bloody great water pipeline or several water pipelines from the sea putting desalination plants at the end of each pipeline. Why? Well, we don't seem to be able to grasp that Iraqis like killing each other over the same religion - which seems a bit pointless to me & apart from all the oil there, it's just a big desert.

Now Africa on the other hand has many resources and if we shipped all the people off to the middle of Australia - I mean half of Africans are dying from AIDS anyway - then it would give all those endangered animals a chance to recover and we could properly harvest the land and mine all the resources there. They won't do it, because they're all fighting each other because they're from different tribes. Just take a look at Australia, it's very accessible, it's like a ginormous island? We just need to relocate the best people about the globe a bit don't we?

I wonder how long this questions will last!

Now let's see - what's wrong with it. Well, it's probably going to be deemed racist, xenophobic, will thoroughly inflame all the do-gooders and religious zealots alike - have I missed anything or anyone?

I just want to give those elephants, tigerse and all those other majestic animals a chance - they have enough problems with lions and other predators hanging about - let alone greedy Japs and there need for aphrodisacs causing poachers with AK47s' to be running about!

Course - you know what will happen don't you? Some damn fool scientist or scientists will find a cure for AIDS, when Nature (unless it was man made - I think the jury'S still out on that one isn't it?) was doing very nicely at culling off the excess of 'stupid-people-shouldn't-breed' catagory of humans and the balance of things will start to be upset again and our development will slide back again not to mention possibly the extinction of a few species of wild animals!

All this becomes academic, when as a race, we finally pull our fingers out(probably when we're being threatened with extinction by some asteroid or something) and stop sending expensive probes (some of which go missing, or are said to go missing) to get pifling little soil samples from other planets and grow up and set about doing things properly; getting terra-forming technology properly off the ground.

Then there will be enough land to go round for everybody. Stupid-people-shouldn't-breed can go on one planet, religious nuts can go on another, do-gooders (with all the 'global warming' crowd on a nearby moon) on another and so on and so forth - it seems very simple to me

We'll probably have to invent a super-duper artificial intelligence computer to tell us all, what we should have realised with common sense, but because of pride, arrogance and the general 'couldn't see the wood for the trees' attitude that seems permanently entrenched in our existence - we haven't done so yet!

Answer 1

And what would happen to the endangered animals in Australia already ? Plus the fact that there are already aboriginals living there ? It's not as empty as you seem to think.

Australia has one of the worse extinction rates in the world, because of man's ignorance....... and filling up "empty deserts" would only drive most of them to total extinction. Some of Oz's animals may not be as beautiful as the animals you're talking about, but they have the same right to live and thrive as any other animal.

In the past 200 years about 17 different Australian mammals have become extinct. Many more mammals and other animals are in danger of dying out. Australia has more endangered species than any other continent in the world.

~~Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger is probably extinct, though people stll search for it.
They were marsupials. They were hunted and killed by people who thought the thylacine would kill their chickens and sheep.
The last known thylacine died in Hobart Zoo on 7th September 1936. This day is now known as Threatened Species Day.

The lesser bilby has not been sighted since the 1960s, and is probably extinct. Its relative, the Greater Bilby is now endangered. Once common in central Australian desert areas, the numbers have been reduced by fire and foxes and its habitat affected by grazing cattle and rabbits.

The numbat is endangered because of habitat loss and foxes. Once common across the southern part of the continent, it is now only found in a few forests in southwest Western Australia.

Leadbeater's possum was not seen after 1909 and was thought to be extinct, but the possums were found again in 1961. They are endangered, and are only found in the Victorian central highlands, in old forest areas that are being logged. The animals nest in tree hollows, and these are only found in old trees.

Eastern Barred Bandicoot Some desert species of bandicoot are extinct and the remaining species are vulnerable. If their habitats change, they will become endangered. One kind is the western barred bandicoot , now only found on a few islands in Shark Bay, Western Australia. The eastern barred bandicoot is now found only in Tasmania and in a few places in Victoria.

Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo, is a kangaroo that lives in trees. In Australia it is found only in northeastern Queensland, in highland rainforests. Queensland's rainforests are disappearing habitats, because of land clearing, and these animals are classified as vulnerable.

The Australian sea-lion is vulnerable. These animals were hunted to near extinction. They are the only seal or sea-lion found exclusively in Australia.
Another vulnerable marine mammal is the dugong, found grazing on sea grasses in warm shallow
water off the northern coast.

And did you know that Australia has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world, who regularly eats the animals that are featured as their national emblem?

It's a sad world we live in.... and we all need to make a difference.

Answer 2

I think I hear what you are saying. Our early experiences of care and our living conditions certainly impact on how we grow, how we think, how we feel and ultimately how we behave. However, data suggests that children who have been hurt, harmed and abused do not automatically go on to hurt others. Attachment to others may be problematic, abused individuals may possibly grow to be insecure and mistrusting of others, their relationships may be less stable but most abused individuals do not become abusers. Some children are incredibly strong and resilient. They may have some positive role models in their lives that can make a difference. Through accessing specialist support services and indeed universal services such as education children can cope, survive and move on to become well adjusted, responsible, happy people who make a positive contribution to society. I would be cautious about making assumptions about how the victims/survivors of abuse may turn out later on in life. Severe mental health problems, isolation, extreme, enduring stress (with no access to appropriate support services) and substance misuse I suspect are more determining risk factors for violent behaviour.

Answer 3

Now look,
Its not only the iraqis who kill each other over the same religion, look at ireland. How long have christians been at each other's throats?

As for Australia, most of the centre is desert, thats why we all live on the coast.

If only it were all that simplistic

Answer 4

A bit opinionated are we tonight . Good luck with that one. I can't get them to dig the Rio Grand deeper take the excess alligators from Fla put them there and use the dirt to raise New Orleans above sea level.

Answer 5

Wow.... everyone is avoiding you like the plague tonight.
I like all your ideas though!
So after we pull out of Iraq, and send Africans to the down under, what could we do with all the land in Iraq after they have killed each other off? Animal sanctuary maybe???

Answer 6

too many people, too many mouths, not enough busy hands