National Director of Sustainable Population Australia 17 January 2002 © The Sydney Morning Herald Immigration must fall within the bounds of ecological sustainability if Australia is not to become a wasteland, writes Jenny Goldie. As more and more asylum seekers press on our shores, we need to know how many people this country can sustain. Social
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10 February 2002 © New York Times BOMBAY, Feb. 9 — To be poor and female on the streets of India’s largest city is to exact a punishing daily self-discipline: to relieve yourself only before sunrise and after sunset. For Selvi, a mother of four who lives in a shantytown on the banks of the
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© Australian Geographic Oct – Dec 2003 This old, dry continent simply can’t cope with any more people. AUSTRALIA’S POPULATION grows by a quarter of a million annually and is about 20 million. By mid-century we’ll hit 25 million. I believe our current population is unsustainable, putting unacceptable strains on our fragile resources. We desperately
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4 November 2003 © The Sydney Morning Herald There has been a barrage of propaganda in favour of Australia aiming for a higher population figure than that which demographic trends suggest will be the case. Will there be 25 or 30 million Australians in 2030? Should we aim for 40 million by 2050? If so,
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National Director of Sustainable Population Australia 13 November 2003 © Canberra Times WHAT must we do to achieve a sustainable society? About 200 people will gather in Canberra tomorrow to address this question. A conference at the Shine Dome will draw together the threads of the Internet “In Search Of Sustainability” conference that has run
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National Director of Sustainable Population Australia 14 November 2003 SPEECH TO ISOS CONFERENCE Bryan Furnass, Bob Douglas and I sat down a year ago to organise this ISOS conference. We chose nine themes, broadly divided between environmental, social and economic issues. The national executive of my organisation, Sustainable Population Australia, was less than
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Population growth, migration and four Millennium Development Goals (73Kb)– Colin D. Butler, Jan 06 Halt the population express (43Kb) – Jenny Stewart, Canberra Times, 18 Dec 06 AUSTRALIA MUST STABILISE ITS POPULATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE (24Kb) – Jenny Goldie, Sceptics Debate, 21 Aug 07 Population Choices and Australia’s Water Supply – David Kault SPA North
VIEWPOINT The global population is higher than the Earth can sustain, argues the Director of the British Antarctic Survey in the first of a series of environmental opinion pieces on the BBC News website entitled The Green Room. Solving environmental problems such as climate change is going to be impossible without tackling the issue, he
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A recent article in the AGE Newspaper by Royce Millar, highlights the potential expansion of Melbourne’s metropolitan boundaries to the North and West of the City. The rezoning will increase land values in these areas as previous farming land is converted to housing blocks. The windfall gains to some developers could be as high as
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This self-assessment of the ‘progress’ over the last 12 months highlights all the good things in life, tax cuts, new trade training centres in high schools, the 2020 ideas summit, the ‘sorry’ statement to indigenous Australians, signing the Kyoto Protocol and computers in schools (to name just a few) as its past year’s progress.
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