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more drought tolerant plants, to minimise water usage, there are also plans afoot in our lands by governments to build more desalination plants. Droughts cause through climate change is going to cause a lot of devastation which we are seeing here in South Australia now! The devastation of the River Murray for example is causing a lot of heart ache.

Governments are giving us all incentives to curb the greenhouse emissions from our homes and backyards. Maybe it is recycling, a double sided garbage bin or by planting herbs at the back door are great ideas. You maybe doing some of these things already but we must keep encouraging the politicians to more around the world.

The ice caps are melting, the polar bears are dying of starvation, some animals are already becoming extinct in the last 100 years. We all may have been doing something in our own small way over the past decades, but I do know the past twelve months I have noticed changes around me in my own little personal world. The most heartbreaking thing I have seen is birds in our native wetlands dying from lack of water, the native birds have to fly further to get water or feed. Our close by National Parks are on alert longer each summer with the extreme heat, which stops us from walking in these areas. The National Parks are closing the parks of to the general public during extreme heat.

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