Some global media is taking note of the dubious milestone of 7 Billion people on earth such as the UK's Guardian. It has published an article by Roger Martin, chair of SPA's UK counterpart, Population Matters. We don't currently see any major Australian newspapers publishing articles similar to this. Article Publication: The Guardian, UK Article
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This population classic, a short, illustrated book by Nola Stewart that was originally written in 1982 and has been updated multiple times since, has been both updated again this year and also turned into a series of YouTube videos: Part A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUgcw-TxGDA Part B http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wBUIP9Foco Part C http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgn7WSbRcSs Attachments: ConservationThroughHavingSmallerFamilies2012.pdf Image:
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Here are 3 keynote talks from SPA’s 2011 AGM, held in Perth on the 3rd of April.
The general topic was General topic was: The Resource Boom: Benefit or Burden?
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SPA is happy to announce its new website… and you’re looking at it right now!
This new site is one part of a large IT upgrade that SPA is undertaking over several months which will include new membership databases and online interactions with members. Hopefully this will lead to better internet communication and new opportunities to transmit our important message about population to the Australian public.
This new site will have some teething problems in late September so please bear with us as we work to fix them. If you have urgent issues with the site, please contact the webmaster via the Contact page. Just a note: no content has been lost so if your favourite article isn’t appearing just yet, it’s not gone forever but just archived for the moment!
Here is SPA’s submission to the National Food Plan consultation that was run by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (see http://www.daff.gov.au/agriculture-food/food/national-food-plan). From the submission: “SPA submits that, in preparing a national food plan, the government must deal with the reality that no environmental problem can be solved by human population growth and indeed
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Once there was a village with 10 families who shared a 1000 litre waste bin between them. This meant they could each put in 100 litres of waste before the bin was full. The waste collection truck would come each month and swap the bin with another 1000 litre bin. However one day the waste
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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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This is the first book published in Australia that argues the ‘heretical’ view that Australia is overpopulated, and that government plans to increase our population by another 40 per cent by 2050 are irresponsible folly. Mark O’connor and William Lines show why it is necessary to cap Australia’s population growth, and that it is possible
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This description is from the Wikipedia article on The Population Bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb) The Population Bomb was a best-selling book written by Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich (who was uncredited), in 1968. It warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major
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If you want to be happier, live in a country town with fewer than 30,000 people. Article Link: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/06/01/2915141.htm
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