>Gobi desert a population of over 24 million
>Siberia a population of over 33 million
So now why didn't the Aussies settle the outback and why didn't the Canadians settle their northern lands.
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>Gobi desert a population of over 24 million. >Siberia a population of over 33 million
Anglos are pussies who can't into harsh environments. Literally the worst colonizers ever
The actual Siberian wastes is proper empty, those 33 million people live in a belt along the very southern extreme analogous to Canada's population belt along the border
Yeah, the Russians actually did remarkably well in the southern part.
It's a permafrost shithole and if you go anywhere near Alaska latitudes you'll go insane from the midnight sun. Look at a density map of Russia and you'll see why they didn't even settle northern siberia.
How do people live in Alaska then?
Government subsidies, the threat of court martial, grain alcohol, and oil.
cope, alaska is fine
More people live in Alaska than all of Northern Canada. Maybe Canada just sucks at developing land
>So now why didn't the Aussies settle the outback
Because there are no rivers? The NT has only 200k people for a reason.
Scientists have found that all that land is actually viable and can be settled in Canada and Australia.
Australia is extremely underpopulated relative to its useful land.
Aussies don't settle the outback because they're a bunch of privileged cucks who want house prices to go up.
this. if they even had half the amount of courage and willpower early israelis had then australia would be a powerhouse. there will be big desalination projects in the future when australians finally wise up. when parts of indonesia become uninhabitable due to climate change there's going to be some big changes
Israel is a TINY country situated next to a river
Israel has 20% of Australia's population
The middle east has been inhabitated since prehistory while Australia had no humans until the 18th century
Israelis aren't native to the area
There are still more muslims there than people in the NT
yet mandate palestine was an arid shithole. and now apart from the negev due to sheer ingenuity it has been slowly transforming into the green wonder it used to be like 2000 years ago
>big desalination projects
please tell us about the economics of pumping desalinated water thousands of kilometers inland, uphill, to support a desert city which exists for no economic reason
>https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/adjusting-population-density-account-land-quality
>In our recent paper (Henderson et al. 2020), we take a systematic approach to assessing land quality and adjust population density according to differences in this measure of land quality. We term this quality-adjusted population density and compute it for various countries, but similar analyses would be possible both at larger or smaller scales. The first step in this process is deriving weights on geographic and climatological characteristics that can be measured on a consistent and fine scale (quarter degree longitude-latitude grid squares, of which there are approximately 250,000 on land worldwide). The characteristics we examine include agricultural productivity, biomes, proximity to the sea, navigable rivers, large lakes, and natural harbours, as well as terrain roughness and elevation. We derive weights for each of these characteristics by studying their influence on the distribution of the population within a country. Hence, we base our analysis on within rather than between country variation and are thus able to avoid any bias that might result from a potential correlation of a country’s climate or geography and its institutions, income per capita, or overall population density.
>three authors, none of whom are geologists, soil scientists, hydrologists, agronomists, meteorologists
>they're all economists
I'm sorry but this is the most moronic thing I've ever read. There's a reason the entire population of Australia is jammed onto a small part of the continent while 80% of it is left empty and desolate and believe me , it's not for lack of trying.
You can't even look at the map and realize the problem
>no infrastructure has been established past the 200KM
>actual tundra conditions
>majority of the land is of poor soil quality or just solid granite
Outside of some mineral deposits to the north, most people would rather be in the fertile soil areas which are outside of that desolate zone. Like most civilizations that actually have a choice.
This thread isn't history or humanities, mods have officially stopped giving a shit lmao
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>Gobi
>Siberia
Alcoholics and Terrorists are a good example?
>moron doesn't realize how most of that red circle isn't land you can easily build on
>literally the Canadian Shield
It's mostly forest. Or is this moron suggesting that we do deforestation?
Won't he start crying about that instead?
Europe and the USA have plenty of people as well as forested areas
there are no problems with the forest. but the permafrost does not allow literally any type of agriculture, in addition, in the north, shitty moss grows instead of cereal plants, which makes it also unsuitable for grazing livestock, with the exception of reindeer.
The area where it reaches -30 degrees in the winter and walking outside to get your mail can be a life or death issue.