“The compelling case for the planet is that if we’re going to have 9 billion people by 2050, and the food task doubling at 30 per cent of the productive land of Asia, where two-thirds of the world’s population will live,” he said. “Australia has some responsibility … in developing the potential it has.” Northern
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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
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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
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Population Doublings The banker’s “1-70” rule of thumb states that 1 percent per annum growth (or compound interest) means a doubling of capital every seventy years; 2 percent growth means a doubling every 35 years, and so on. If Australia’s population continues to grow at its recent rate it will double in about 50 years.
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It was pleasing that The Canberra Times put the subject of world population growth (“2050 population 9 billion: UN”, March 15) on its front page. The story reported that the expected 2.5 billion increase from now until 2050 will be equivalent to the world’s entire population in 1950, but missed the United Nations’ qualification that
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The Howard Government has pulled off a massive deception against the Australian people on the issue of immigration. The Government has focused attention on the issue of unauthorised boat arrivals, which has diverted attention away from immigration in general. It needs to be understood that less than 10 percent of immigrants who come to Australia
On 1 November 2004 at 14:36:07 (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia was projected to be 20,206,802. This projection [from ABS website] is based on the estimated resident population at 31 March 2004 and assumes growth since then of: one birth every 2 minutes and 5 seconds, one death every 3 minutes and 55
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It was pleasing that The Canberra Times put the subject of world population growth (“2050 population 9 billion: UN”, March 15) on its front page. The story reported that the expected 2.5 billion increase from now until 2050 will be equivalent to the world’s entire population in 1950, but missed the United Nations’ qualification that
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