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Nor was there any mention of population growth in the earlier draft agreements and the matter hardly rated a mention in the whole two weeks of the conference, except by the Chinese. A Chinese delegate, Zhao Baige, vice minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, pointed out the obvious, “Dealing with climate change

  New demographic figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Australia’s population is on a collision course with our natural environment, the Australian Conservation Foundation said.?? ABS data shows Australia’s population grew by 439,000 people in the year to March 2009, including net overseas migration of 239,000.  Australia’s growth rate of 2.1

  ABC TV News and The 7.30 Report have been much slower to improve, and over the past two decades have ignored hundreds if not thousands of media releases from credible organisations asking them to investigate the population component of major issues like global warming, peak oil, environmental destruction, and Australia’s greenhouse emissions. (On just how

Kyoto was seen as an Earth-saving agreement. In reality, pitifully few of those who signed up to it delivered on their commitments. In 1996, the World Food Summit in Rome pledged to cut the number of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition by half before 2015. The target was to reduce world hunger to less

PARADISE LOST—KELOWNA THEN AND NOW Opinion by Tim Murray, January 15/09 The fate of Westbank resident Jorden Martz did not surprise me. I have seen it coming for five decades. Martz was the young man who was cut down by a hit-and-run driver at 3am in mid January while he was riding his bike to

The 35-million projection was prepared by the Commonwealth Treasury. It parallels recent Australian Bureau of Statistics and state government population projections. All assume that the current record high net migration levels and high fertility (relative to a few years ago) will continue. If Australia reaches 35 million by 2050, choices about desired family size will

People and Place Authors: Bob Birrell and Ernest Healy, Volume 17, Issue 4 (2009) The Australian Government has stated an unconditional commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by five per cent on year 2000 levels by 2020. However, in the absence of new abatement measures, Treasury-led modelling indicates that Australia’s emissions will grow from 553 million

Maybe there is a bit of selfishness on each side. Those for higher population like the markets and money and political donations that come from industries that profit from higher population. Those against ask like Carr: “What’s wrong with a bit of space? What’s wrong with the possibility of being able to get to a