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Sustainable population breakfast: When is enough, enough? |
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Written by Samantha Morris
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 13:28 |
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Former environment minister, Andrew McNamara will join some 150 business leaders from across Brisbane as keynote speaker at a business breakfast forum. The Queensland Conservation event looks at when enough is enough in terms of population in Southeast Queensland and Australia more broadly. McNamara is excited about the opportunity to share his views about population with a diverse audience.
“Every day, the front pages of our papers are covered in variations on the same problem. Whether the issue is traffic congestion, overcrowding on trains, waiting lists for hospitals, skills shortages, social alienation in urbay sprawl, food security, water security or global warming," McNamara says.
“There is only one problem,” McNamara says. “There are too many of us.”
The forum takes place on Friday 17 July from 6.50 am - 9.00 am at the Gabba. The event also features a panel of industry experts:
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 28 June 2009 23:54 )
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WOMEN, POPULATION AND WHY CAMERAN DIAZ MAY MAKE A GOOD SPA SPOKESMAN |
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Written by Jane Addison
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Monday, 22 June 2009 11:41 |
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Not really. But she has been getting some unusual coverage in the media lately.
In amongst the celebrity gossip of online Women’s Day (June 15), the article ‘Cameron: It’s natural to not want children’ reports the actor discussing the trend of women in her peer group to not have children. She is quoted as saying ‘And honestly? We don’t need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.’
Women’s Day then invited readers to post comments as to whether they agree that there are too many people on this planet.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 June 2009 13:49 )
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Scientist: Warming Could Cut Population to 1 Billion |
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Written by JAMES KANTER
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Sunday, 21 June 2009 11:41 |
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(The full article was first published in Dot Earth, Blog, March 13, 2009 and republished in “The New York Times, Science issue Sunday June 21 2009.
COPENHAGEN — A scientist known for his aggressive stance on climate policy made an apocalyptic prediction on Thursday.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if the buildup of greenhouse gases and its consequences pushed global temperatures 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today — well below the upper temperature range that scientists project could occur from global warming — Earth’s population would be devastated.
[UPDATED, 6:10 p.m: The preceding line was adjusted to reflect that Dr. Schellnhuber was not describing a worst-case warming projection. h/t to Joe Romm.]
“In a very cynical way, it’s a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something –- namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people,” said Dr. Schellnhuber, who has advised German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate policy and is a visiting professor at Oxford.
See Full Article at
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/scientist-warming-could-cut-population-to-1-billion/
The Copenhagen meeting at which this talk was presented refers to the International Scientific Congress on climate change under the heading "Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions", 10-12 March 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The congress was organised in cooperation with nine other universities in the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU). The host was the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. (http://climatecongress.ku.dk/about/) |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 29 June 2009 00:00 )
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Population and Sustainability: Can We Avoid Limiting the Number of People? |
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Written by Robert Engleman
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 11:06 |
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Scientific American
Special Editions June 10, 2009
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=population-and-sustainability
Slowing the rise in human numbers is essential for the planet--but it doesn't require population control
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THE WORLD IN 2050: A Scientific Investigation of the Impact of Global Population Growth on a Divided Planet |
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Written by Berkeley Conference Participants
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 00:10 |
An international group of 42 scientists met at the University of California, Berkeley on January 23-24 2009 to discuss The World in 2050, and how global changes in the human population might change our future. The meeting was organized by the Bixby Centers at the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The participants all spoke as individuals and not as representatives of governments or organizations. The proceedings are web-cast (see http:// www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/worldin2050/worldin2050-overview.aspx) and the papers prepared for the Forum will be published as a theme issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. This statement, prepared by the organizers, summarizes some conclusions of the meeting without committing every participant to support of every detail.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 June 2009 00:28 )
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Save the planet by cutting down on meat? That's just a load of bull |
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Written by Boris Johnson?
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 23:32 |
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Published: Online at Telegraph.co.uk
12:01AM BST 09 Sep 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/3562013/Save-the-planet-by-cutting-down-on-meat-Thats-just-a-load-of-bull.html
 We are going to have carnivorous festivals of chops and sausages
Look, I hate to be rude to the UN. I don't want to seem churlish in the face of advice from a body as august and well-meaning as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But if they seriously believe that I am going to give up eating meat - in the hope of reducing the temperature of the planet - then they must be totally barmy.
No, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, distinguished chairman of the panel, I am not going to have one meat-free day per week. No, I am not going to become a gradual vegetarian. In fact, the whole proposition is so irritating that I am almost minded to eat more meat in response.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 June 2009 23:53 )
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Australia continues to experience high population growth (08) |
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Written by Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Monday, 08 June 2009 09:08 |
Media Release from the ABS June 4 2009
 Australia's population increased by 1.9% for the year ending December 2008 according to statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today. The last time Australia saw higher growth rates (above 2%) was in the 1950's and 1960's as a result of post war migration and high birth rates.
These rates compare with a 1.2% growth rate recorded five years ago.
As at 31 December 2008, Australia's population had grown to 21,644,000, an increase of 406,100 people over the previous year. Australia's net overseas migration contributed to more than half of this growth at 62% or 253,400 people. Natural increase (the excess of births over deaths) contributed 152,700 (38%).
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 June 2009 11:01 )
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Asylum is still a numbers game |
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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 31 May 2009 17:54 |
Former Federal Minister Barry Cohen has always been concerned about population growth in Australia. Granted his sad family history, recounted below, one might expect him to favor unlimited acceptance of refugees. What is interesting is that he does not. See the original article at http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25537557-7583,00.html
His last five paragraphs are particularly interesting. The original article is re-produced below: |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 June 2009 11:02 )
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The cooking–immigration nexus |
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Written by Bob Birrell, Ernest Healy and Bob Kinnaird
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 10:21 |
There has been a meteoric rise in enrolments of overseas students in cooking courses in Australia from around 1019 in 2004 to 8242 in 2008. All are trained in full-time courses conducted mainly by private providers – rather than via the apprenticeship system as is the case for Australian-trained cooks. Most of the overseas students who have finished these courses have subsequently gained permanent residence as cooks. Cooking is now the second largest occupation, behind accounting amongst those gaining permanent entry visas under the onshore former overseas student visa subcategories. This article examines the rules governing the training and subsequent visaing of these cooks. It concludes that there are serious gaps in the rules governing their training and the assessment of their competency. In large part because of these deficiencies, only a minority obtain employment in Australia as trade level cooks. (Reproduced with permission from "PEOPLE AND PLACE", Vol 17(1) page 63. Obtain the pdf from here
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 06 May 2009 02:48 )
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Arithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett |
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Written by Prof. Albert Bartlett
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Saturday, 04 April 2009 07:37 |
Professor Bartlett has given his celebrated one-hour lecture, "Arithmetic, Population and Energy: Sustainability 101" over 1,600 times to audiences with an average attendance of 80 in the United States and world-wide. His audiences have ranged from junior high school and college students to corporate executives and scientists, and to congressional staffs. He first gave the talk in September, 1969, and subsequently has presented it an average of once every 8.5 days for 36 years. His talk is based on his paper, "Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis," originally published in the American Journal of Physics, and revised in the Journal of Geological Education. (Read on for more information and to view the eight videos that make up the full lecture.)
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 April 2009 11:14 )
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Population Quotes
Population is exploding. We’ve got to do something about getting a sustainable population level and of course this gets back to poverty, it gets back to the education of women and so on. We’ve got the problems of food supply, of global warming, massive increases in the population. Now these are not the figments of Bob Hawke’s imagination. These are facts. You’ve got over a billion people in the world of over six million now living in absolute poverty and half the world’s population living in very meagre situations. -
Former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke - Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, ABC TV (2008)
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MEDIA RELEASE -HUMANS A MAJOR INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES
INTERNATIONAL BIODIVERSITY DAY
22 May 2009.
According to the UN's Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) Report of 2005, over the past 50 years, humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fibre and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Humans are a major invasive alien species in most ecosystems, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA).
May 22 is International Biodiversity Day, the theme of which this year is invasive alien species. Read On!
MEDIA RELEASE - COPENHAGEN PROTOCOL MUST INCLUDE POPULATION
FOR WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - June 5
National President of Sustainable Population Australia, Ms Sandra Kanck, said, “It is time the UNFCCC decision-makers recognised that population growth compounds the problems of climate change and explored the potential to minimise population growth through renewed attention to family planning. Read On!
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