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Part 16: Pollution of our planet Americans pride themselves with their clean water laws, air pollution laws and environmental protection agencies. Everyone ‘talks’ about their ‘green’ actions and practices. However, they might be surprised to note that a scant 30 percent of citizens recycle with any regularity. No matter how ‘clean’ they might think their

Dr John Coulter is Vice-President of Sustainable Population Australia and a former leader of the Australian Democrats. Nick Minchin is a former Finance and Industry Minister in the Howard Government and he’s set to retire from the Senate next year after 18 years in that chamber. They both join us in Adelaide this morning. Also

Now, Tony Burke is faced with twin challenges of developing a policy position on population that keeps enough people happy to keep him in government. We can easily run through some of the options available to Minister Burke – stimulate or dampen population growth. I suspect he would also like to encourage migration away from

An astounding 42 percent of rivers, lakes and streams in the United States remain so polluted that humans cannot enjoy any contact activity with them. The industrial world treats its drinking water to get rid of the pathogens, but we are forced more and more to recycle it,” said Grant. “The idea of drinking processed

By Frosty Wooldridge Part 18: Biodiversity and human survival As you follow this series, I hope you understand that all of us and our children face this sobering future-IF, and only IF we allow our population to grow by an astounding 100 million people as well as the rest of the planet growing by another

In this series, it’s the things that you don’t see that undermine Mother Nature’s ability to function for all living creatures and plants on this planet. While the environment ‘seems’ steady and dependable, look at the tornadoes across the Midwest in the past week or the eruption of Iceland’s volcano that shut down air traffic

The Advertiser May 08, 2010 12:01am http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/forum-warns-populatio… “In Australia for a long time, we’ve had an addiction to growth and it’s time that we questioned that addiction and did something about it,” Dr Such said. “Problems caused by growth can’t be solved by more growth. “Do we really want to live in a chook house?

 The Anglican Church wants Australians to have fewer children and has urged the federal government to scrap the baby bonus and cut immigration levels. The General Synod of the Anglican Church has issued a warning that current rates of population growth are unsustainable and potentially out of step with church doctrine – including the eighth

http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~788777.aspx   Denver Post Your Hub May 11, 2010   “More than one scientist has remarked that the human race is embarked on a vast, unplanned experiment to see what happens when we alter our environment,” said Lindsey Grant. “A refrain keeps beating incessantly in my head: we have changed the world more in the

Apart from the irony of Rudd’s later attack on the miners as foreign companies sending their profits overseas, the Prime Minister’s defence of foreign students went to the heart of the economic, political and philosophical challenge of a mining boom creating a classic two-speed economy. That is, a commodity boom in Western Australia and Queensland