Environment Pollution Issue

It seems strange and suprise to know that Australia leads the way in many areas of environmental degradation, and has serious depletion problems of resources in other areas. First, Australians have pushed the deforestation to an alarming extent. Today, about 40% of the continent has been severely changed by intensive land use, and its forests have been cleared since European settlement with a significant proportion of what remains fragmented and weed-infested.

Australian farming is mostly an antipodean offshoot of European examples, but in a harsh waterless environment with soils lacking essential nutrients. Cattle and sheep destroy the desert vegetation and are stocked at such low rates as to be highly unprofitable. And the massive water shortage doesn’t stop the strong resistance to recycled drinking water. Water is also wasted for non-sustainable crops and even washing vegetables, with thousands of litres per kilogram required to produce many crops.