Resumen de The taming of a vast wilderness
Australia has a daring plan: to convert its tropical north into a huge "food bowl". The area being considered spans 3 million square kilometers. The plan offers many benefits, but the environmental risk has not yet been properly measured and may be huge. Developing the north is a major aim of the Liberal party governing Australia. They want to double the country's agricultural output by mid-century. However, Northern Australia contains 25% of the world's tropical savannahs--the only significant area in a wealthy, stable country. Each wet season, rivers overflow and flood the savannah, and life blooms.
