Murray-Darling plan is pseudo-science

To those unaffected by the religion of environmentalism, it would seem that the goal of water management ought to be to harvest as much water as possible, at the cheapest price possible. That way we can have cheaper food, increased living standards and allow for greater population growth. But that is not what is happening with regard to the Murray-Darling river system, which covers a massive slice of Australia’s agricultural production.

Instead, the Labor-Green alliance is using your tax money to divert water from farming, back into the river, which will inevitably result in decreased food production and increased prices at the supermarket. In other words you are actually paying taxes to make prices at the supermarket more expensive, an economic double-whammy. It’s like paying for the cost of your own serfdom.

And for what purpose is this being inflicted upon the Australian people?

The government claims it is to “ensure the health of the river system”, but what does that actually mean? Shouldn’t the health of the river system be judged on how much water it can provide for irrigation and other useful purposes?

Well no. Labor and the Greens claim “environmental flows” must be restored. But again, what does that even mean? What are “environmental flows”?

There was a time in earth’s history when the Sahara desert of Northern Africa was a lush with plant life. There was a time in the earth’s history when areas that are now green, were desert. There was a time when the landmass that we today call Australia, was connected to the continent of Eurasia. There was even a time when the earth was just a ball of molten rock.

And you know what? All of it happened before humans even had a chance to evolve. And therein lies the critical point. The earth changes. It has always changed. Humans are not an unnatural part of that change. We evolved, like any other animal, and the things we do, by definition, cannot be unnatural. The only relevant question is whether what we do is good or bad. Citing some magical “environment” that exists separately to human beings, is nothing but pseudo-scientific mysticism.

The creative intellectual capacity of humans, part of our natural evolutionary stock, can be used to change things to suit not only our needs, but also the needs of other species. That is the great thing about the human species. Unlike any other species that has yet evolved, we have the ability to change things for the better and we ought to do that by harvesting as much water as we can, as cheaply as we can.