The Answerer

Cannot tell you exactly except to say that the world is constantly changing.

The Garden of Eden, or Paradise as God first made it, had the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flowing through it, plus two others. It became Babylon and later Persia.That’s in (Genesis Chapter 2:8-15).Today it is Iraq, Iran and some others.

It is called ‘The Cradle of Civilisation’ today. It has changed a lot!There used to be lions and bears there. David dealt with them (1 Samuel 17:33-37).

From TV footage today it is all limestone hills and sand, or at least no forest and ‘good’ land.

In Western Australia where I live the ‘bush’ went for over a thousand kilometres in good country. Millions of trees and shrubs, and the world’s largest number and diversity of flowers. Now it is mostly wheat, sheep and cattle country.

But 20 to 30 percent of it is now salted up, or very poor soil and in some spots is a desert. We did it!

Many folk are planting trees by the million and other groups are buying up land to restore it with the plants, trees and flowers (with the birds and animals that used to be there). Others are fencing off huge pieces of land to keep out foxes, cats and rabbits and so are helping the original wildlife that used to live there in great diversity and number to hopefully survive. Guess who brought in the foxes, cats and rabbits? We did. Long way to go to restore say 20% of the land so it is more like what it was originally.

Some people like exploring Antarctica – I don’t.

Some want to climb Mt Everest – I don’t.

Some like to challenge themselves to run across the Simpson or Sahara Desert – I don’t. Very hard on the body! And my wheelchair would get bogged!

I would not like to live in tropical areas, too hot and muggy. I like where I am.

Hope that made at least some sense.