Spring has sprung here in South Australia, and everything's so green it just doesn't seem possible that we're still in drought. We drove west from Adelaide to the Clare Valley last weekend and the rolling hills looked picture-book perfect under spectacular cloud-spattered sunshine.
But all the farm dams were empty - just like they are over most of the nation (excepting much of the east coast).
Our weather is changing for the worse regardless of whether we’re entering "global warming" through natural progression or human mis-management. With world-wide unseasonable floods, heat-waves and miscellaneous other disasters coming more often, it seems we have ring-side seats for the beginning of a new era.
This is certainly a great time for scientific debate and newspaper headlines, and for our politicians in our current election season. We're fed, daily, with new forecasts of doom, and more schemes aimed at purifying our atmosphere and reversing the passage to disaster.
I can't help wondering, though, if anything useful could be done in Australia. We haven't, after all, been able to save our once-mighty Murray River system , despite generations of debate.
There's one thing for certain, though - most of us "seniors" won't be around for curtain call, and that's OK for us. But I wonder what's in store for our children, and theirs?
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