It is not my intention to provoke a huge argument on this, its just that I thought they missed an elephant in the room.
"Do you remember the dust storms last year"?
I do. It looked just like the ones my mother used to talk about that happened in the drought of the 1940s, not long before the fifties floods that almost drowned some inland cities.
On a broad front, can I say that most people remember their first experience of nearly everything as being profound. So people for whom that was their first dust storm, understandably thought it was armageddon. Those who are now experiencing water restrictions for the first time, think that there is no solution. And so on.
But after you have experienced countless dust storms, and carted water in drought times for thirsty livestock, and then seen lush pasture like that above, return, you become a litle cynical of experts predicting doom.
