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NEWS: 16 September 2011

Have increases in population, affluence and technology worsened human and environmental well-being?

This paper examines whether over the long term, empirical data supports Neo-Malthusian fears that exponential population growth would lead to increasing resource scarcity, and that increases in population, affluence and technology would worsen human and environmental well-being. Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development By Indur M. Goklany Article Link: http://www.ejsd.org/public/journal_article/11

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

SPA election results 2008

  SPA Audit Report 2007 Constitutional amendments 2008 Results of the elections   Position Elected President John R. Coulter Vice President Alan Jones   Secretary Jenny Goldie Treasurer Tom Nilsson Committee member Garry Egger Committee member Debra Dodd Committee member Gordon Hocking Committee member Paddy Weaver Committee member Andrew Melville-Smith   John Coulter All my

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

Consultation paper for the State Sustainability Strategy – submission by B. Bucktin to the WA Dept. of the Premier, Mar 2002

Professor Peter Newman Director, Sustainability Policy Unit Department of the Premier 15th Floor, 197 St Georges Tce Perth WA 6000 6 March 2002   Dear Professor Newman   FOCUS ON THE FUTURE:   Opportunities for Sustainability in Western Australia   Thank you for your invitation to comment on the FOCUS ON THE FUTURE: Opportunities for

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

Submissions by SPA

2011 Submission by SPA to the Australian Government's process to develop a sustainable population strategy – Submission by Sandra Kanck, SPA President, 1 March 2011 Submission to Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness Submission by Sandra Kanck, SPA President, 2 February 2011 Submission to ACT Legislative Assembly Inquiry into the Population Carrying Capacity of the ACT  Submission by Tom Gosling, President, ACT Branch,

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

The over-population versus over-consumption debate

It’s disturbing that people who are clearly concerned at the inequity between the wealth of the world’s richest one billion people and the poverty of the poorest billions, but who just haven’t looked into the issue deeply enough to see that over-population and over-consumption are two sides of the same coin. In late 2008, UK environmentalist and

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

Population on facebook

SPA is now represented on Facebook! Victorian member Baz Bardoe created the global Sustainable Population Australia group to expand the group’s media coverage.   The online group includes a discussion board, where members can post population themed articles and links, as well as a wall in which they can post comments.   There are also

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