Today, Europeans have monopolised most of the lands with temperate wet climates. In Semiarid areas, the existence of a long-lived pastoral industry formerly dependent on Agricultural labour, enabled Aboriginal people to maintain traditional connections to country to a far greater degree, whilst in Arid areas European settlements were not to develop, and traditional hunting and gathering continued to early modern times. The cost to Aboriginal culture of western colonial practices associated with what has been called the "stolen generations" has been enormous. Aboriginal youth are now recognised as the most imprisoned population in the world.