This frank admission came from Jeff Davis, the Assistant Director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Habitat Program, at the June 2019 meeting of the Southern Resident Killer Whale Task Force, which has been set up by Washington Governor Inslee to save the endangered orcas. He was followed by Task Force Member G.I. […]
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This page is intended for use by Mark O’Connor to update the statistics contained in the Book Overloading Australia: How Governments and the Media dither and deny on population”. It can also be used for errata or to provide a page of additional material.
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Since 2007 Australia has experienced unprecedented population growth consisting both of natural increase and immigration. Immigration, however, accounts for the greater part of this growth, and is set to continue. If the current intake is maintained it will take the country from its present population of just under 24 million to over
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Following the SPA AGM held in Adelaide on the 7th March this year (2015) the organisers ‘treated’ the public and the assembled members to a symposium titled “Population and Ageing: Disaster or Triumph?” Three speakers, Dr Katharine Betts, Dr. Jane O’Sullivan and Associate Professor Philip Lawn delivered powerful presentations examining the current debate on population aging.
The Powerpoint presentations accompanying each talk have been made available by each speaker and are attached here as PDF’s and links ae provided to the video presentations of each. You are encourged to download for use in personal research.
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The issue of human population has become the “elephant in the room”: huge but ignored by so many. In fact, human numbers count and count decisively. Uniquely, population is the multiplier of all. Without a humane resolution to the problem of population growth, all other causes will, sooner or later, become lost causes. It is high time to face the challenge and refute the many myths that surround it. Powerpoint presentation held at The Bridge Hotel Castle Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Wednesday, May 14 2014.
‘Skeptics in a Pub’ Meeting Powerpoint Produced as a PDF Read More »
This Declaration was passed unanimously by the participants attending the Fenner Conference on 11th October, 2013
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Parliamentarians from South Asia committed yesterday to prioritize people’s health and welfare through meeting their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs, particularly those of women and young people.
Meeting in Bangkok, MPs discussed ways to reduce the unacceptably high maternal mortality rate in South Asian countries and how to tackle problems relating to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal having the highest birth rates among adolescents.
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I remember hearing those word from a very eminent scientist and thinking at the time; “How can that be? We are such a successful species that dominates the world.” And here we are at the end of 2011 and there are now 7 billion humans alive on the planet! How can we be gone?
And when we are gone …….. Read More »
Triple J, the ABC’s national youth channel, devoted a whole show to the 7 billion milestone and population problems. SPA’s Nick Car was one of the in-studio guests.The Triple J pre-recorded coverage and the frame of their questions of the studio guests was very much in line with SPA thinking and the presenter and producer
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“One day a politician will be brave enough to speak the obvious but forbidden truth: that on a finite planet we cannot continue to exponentially increase our consumption of natural resources, nor survive as a civilisation if we keep adding billions more people to our already swelling planet. Until then, I fear we are creating
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