PU,

This and your "rocket a day" thread are here for what reason? How labor can waste further billions, creating marginal farmland that farmers cannot make a profit on?

you hire 1000 bulldozers...run them at fast revs[and global warming brings in the seas]...its funny i thought when i read the topic it was going to prove mars cant supply and run the 1000 dozers nessesary to 'terror form mars'

clearly teraforming even on a minute scale/right here is much more important for now than trans-forming ..mars[here we got evertything..there would have nothing..[a broken fasn belt or hydro hose on mars..isnt like if that went down here..

there there will be no peons willing to work for pennies a day
and if you think helicoptering fuel to mars..like we now do in alfgunna understan..[via pakies/understan][but no doudt on mars they will be nuke powerd[or self cleaning so.lar sells']

anyhow terror forming aussie with 1000 dozers..dream on
[we had 10,000's of the beggers just compressing our garbage/farmers councils have got them[but they dont got the money to run them 24/7]..unless we divert some of the green funds..for diesal polutant]

just wait till the sea level rises..
[and the plate sinks]..and soon we get the inland sea..there dont that just feel better?..[sorry..but these dreams are far easier to dream than to pay peons to do]

but keep dreaming..its visionry..
but nukes can blow dirt arround much faster..than unionists on speed
but then i wonder how farmners will feel about us making their farm on foundations of sand and salt licks.

its a nice idea..but not with my tax dollar

Ludwig, bit verbose there mate! had trouble keeping up with your meaning.
I think our author is looking at a 3 century's long project.
And we can do better, make it law,for 100 years, three trees must be planted for every one removed.
Planted in marginal areas not farmland, we have plenty.
Pump all sewage treated in land for re use.
Turn some storm water back the same way, we let too much run out to sea.
House the homeless, it need not be over the top just clean neat and livable.
Fix forever the first Australian problems, stop the riders on the back of these folk and get on with improvements.
Dams, and rivers, increase holding so more is held not reducing over long term out flows.
Ludwig waiting your view keep it short mate.

<<I think our author is looking at a 3 century's long project.>>

But in 3 centuries we could do so much better: in 3 centuries we can reduce the human population to about 1% of what it is now, say 100,000,000 on the planet, bringing us back within earth's natural capacity, then we wouldn't need such drastic measures!

This is fascinating theory reminiscent of Ion Idress' book named roughly "The Giant Boomerang" written decades ago about chanelling water from the western side of the dividing range in Queensland down through outback NSW. It is impractical, expensive and never likely to happen. Just look at the massive damage done in the irrigation areas to our soil and water table. The fact is that masses of people can live west of the ranges in country so beautiful that it puts Sydney to shame. Nobody out west wastes water like Sydney people do. Traffic jams last 5 minutes, the air is clean, the country is flat. Land costs about a 10th of what it does in Sydney. NBN means you can work from there like we often do and deal with people all round the world as effectively as if you were sitting in a Martin Place office tower.