The Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is not something we think of as a 'thing'.  It is more a location, and being spherical in shape is very difficult to contemplate in its entirity, especially when we are used to maps that are based on the Northern Hemisphere.

The world can be thought of with the South Pole at the top, or rather, tilted as is the axis of the world.  Then the world rotates clockwise, which is the natural way most things in Nature revolve.  It is the Northern Hemisphere that is on the bottom of the world.  We can imagine a spinning globe of a planet with a solid crust on the top.  As it spins, some of this crust breaks away and flows down the spinning ball.  Plate Techtonics is the crust of our world that is slowly sliding 'down', that is from South to North, in some great 'gravitational field' that is beyond our conception. 

Australia should position ourselves as leaders of the Southern Continents, and help South America and Africa develop and progress.  To a great extent, weather systems are distinct in the two hemispheres, for example, a Neuclear War in the North might not be fatal in the South, and other forms of social and economic systems could eaually be isolated.

We are generally thinking of China and India being the two great Northern Powerhouses that will overtake Europe and North America and with them locate nearly all Economic activity in the Northern Hemisphere.  However, eventually Africa and South America should rise.  Australia, Oceania, South East Asia as well as Africa and South America together, as a United Southern Hemisphere, could rival the North.  This could take a Century, by which time Antarctica will be populated with resettled refugees, amongst others. 

In two hundred years, the World Capital could be in a magnificent ice-palace at the Southern Pole.

Another reason why Australia should lead the Southern Hemisphere, and hence the world is that we have the oldest coninuous cultures amongst all human peoples.  The Australian Aboriginal Dances are memories of the way the world began.  It would be tragic if these memories were forgotten, but they appear (at the start of the 3rd millenium since the start of the Roman Empire) to be strengthening and spreading.