Alasdair Bednall - Emergency Response and Preparedness #2

Show notes (Summarised and not in order):

La Nina macro weather system wet season
Indian Di-pole - The Monsoon winds
Negative Indian Di-pole - Monsoon travelling south into Australia
Two types of flood - Slow flood from consistent rain, building up the local creeks and soaking the ground. Fast flood from heavy downpour which moves logs and stones and deposits debris onto plants, suffocating them.
Situation of many farmers in Hawkesbury River area walking away from farms until a better time when they can restore the land and infrastructure without heavy downpours and when the growing season picks up.

Agroforestry - a response to several situations. Perennial systems are more resilient. Perennial systems are also more productive as there is a diversity of crops and canopy. Various animal species can be included in the system too. Working slowly in perennial systems allows the reduction of chemical use
and smart approaches of weed reduction (Shading out Lantana with tree species that will come up on canopy floor, planted beneath the Lantana).

Standard farming operations keep the Earth in a low state of complexity in order to turn out Annual crops.

Syntropic Farming - Reducing energy expenditure of plants to maximise plant growth and foliage output. Works to feed energy back into systems, doubling down on them and operates in the opposite direction to Entropy.

Troubles with Conservation - Weeds are targeted above all else and with chemical sprays, creating more problems than we started with.