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NEWS: 29 September 2010

Anglican church calls for sustainable population

THE ANGLICAN Church of Australia has warned of “catastrophic” consequences of global overpopulation and unsustainable levels of consumption by the rich. The Church’s General Synod has released a carefully-worded statement from its meeting in Melbourne (18-23 September) calling on the Australian Government to adopt a sustainable population policy and “avoid any reliance on continuing population

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NEWS: 1 September 2010

Public meeting on population explosion at Wyndham

Residents of Wyndham, a municipality 36km south-west of Melbourne whose population has nearly tripled from 50,000 to 140,000 over the past 20 years, discussed their city’s population explosion at a public meeting on 7 September 2010. The meeting was addressed by well-known advocate for a sustainable population, Labor MP Kelvin Thomson, and by Jane Nathan, President of the Australian

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NEWS: 28 August 2010

Melbourne “growing for the sake of growing”

On 23 August, The Sydney Morning Herald published an article by journalist Paul  Sheehan under the headline "The Yarra Monster is killing us". The article quoted Professor Bob Birrell, Monash University demographer, as describing Melbourne as a "parasite economy". Professor Birrell was further quoted as saying "’Increasingly, the fiscal dividend from Australia’s mineral boom is having

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MEDIA RELEASES: 11 August 2010

Dick smith’s wilberforce award

It has become obvious to me that my generation has over exploited our wonderful world – and it’s younger people who will pay the price. Like many people my age, I’ve benefited from a long period of constant economic and population growth – we are addicted to it. But sooner or later this consumption growth

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NEWS: 5 August 2010

Yale’s teach yourself course on global population growth

Yale University has recorded a highly-recommended course introducing students to basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy. Topics include: the human and environmental dimensions of population pressure demographic history economic and cultural causes of demographic change environmental carrying capacity and sustainability. Political, religious and ethical issues surrounding fertility are also addressed.

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