I live on a small cotton farm close to Warren, NSW and the management of the very little water available (not even available) is devastating to see. The farmer I live with not only denies the anthropogenic nature of climate change, but even its reality. Conspiracy by "the greenies"? Sure. I witnessed some horrifying conversations between him and his agriculture mates (on the very green golf course lawns lol). The subject is an emotional mine field.
I am feeding him homeopathic doses of facts about climate change whilst trying to be "on his side", because I think being stuck in a system -where your family/business depends on these water allocations- shouldn't keep you from acknowledging that you are.
I am wondering, though, what the future of agriculture looks like out here. We can't stop irrigating overnight. But are we going to stop growing cotton as part of a plan to relocate water intensive crops elsewhere in Australia? Is there money somewhere that can help transition to a sustainable crop? Or are we going to stop, well, simply because the is no water left in the river?
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