Let's rethink Big Australia.
Don’t let the developers decide our future.
Human population growth is a major cause of habitat destruction
and species loss.
"All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people, and harder - and ultimately impossible - to solve with ever more people." - Sir David Attenborough
Adding more people on the driest habitable continent
is strangling our fragile ecosystems.
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA)
SPA is an independent not-for-profit organisation seeking to protect the environment and our quality of life by ending population growth in Australia and globally, while rejecting racism and involuntary population control. SPA is an environmental advocacy organisation, not a political party.
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Did you Know?
Our nation adds one person every 1 minute and 22 seconds, needing equivalent of a new city the size of Canberra each year.
Humanity is now using the biocapacity of 1½ planets each year. By 2025 two-thirds of the world’s people may be under water stress.
Over 40% of pregnancies are unintended. Early marriage, low education and no contraception trap women and families in a poverty cycle.
Over 80 million people are added each year – equivalent to an extra Egypt. Since 2000 the growth has rebounded due to neglect of family planning.
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