having spent my life in the American West and now being in Europe I'm very aware of deserts and droughts. having toured and studied the dams, canals, and infrastructure for water in the west I also know how tenuous urban human life is when imposed on environments which over leverage aquifers, rivers, and agriculture to sustain people living in delicate ecosystems.

bitch about Australia turning brown every year is fair, as it has for an epoch or more. France hasn't. The AMOC, jetstream, and geography have given it an incredible angriculture belt which predates the industrial revolution and more.

environments are fascinating, systemically. The earth is the only one we have, and I like to understand it.

Maybe don't compare regions that did not have multiple severe heat waves every summer until only a few years ago with Australia.