Climate change: too many people?
Green Left Weekly Article Link: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/775/39955
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Kelvin Thompson at VIC SPA
Kelvin Thompson, Federal MP for Wills, recently gave the keynote address at SPA Victoria's AGM entitled The Population Issue in Australa – Post Population Strategy. The Population Issue in Australia-Post Population Strategy from Alfred Zerfas on Vimeo. You can find out more about Kelvin Thompson, who speaks out about population more than any other Australian politician,
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High-Density housing reflects dense government thinking
We should start out by making it clear that we have no issue with anyone that prefers living in a high-density area or with the free market construction of buildings to fulfill this preference. The issue we have is with the enforced imposition of high density housing upon the bulk of Australians that don’t want
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Carbon pollution plans will fail because of population growth
On World Population Day, 11 July, the National President of Sustainable Population Australia, said the Australian Government’s announced target of a 5 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 would be ‘useless’ by 2020 because of Australia’s continuing population growth. Ms Kanck said it seemed to be beyond the intellect of both Government and Greens MPs to understand that more
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An essay on the principle of population
This description is from the Wikipedia article on An Essay on the Principle of Population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Population. The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798 through J. Johnson (London). The author was soon identified as The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. While it was not the first book on population,
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Govt. policy is ‘titanic deck chair solution’ – SPA president
… STILL HURTLING TOWARDS A BIG AUSTRALIA The results of the Government’s consultation on a population strategy for Australia show that the process was only ever for show, SPA President, Sandra Kanck, said on 13 May following the strategy’s release by Minister Tony Burke. Ms Kanck said the outcome is what Mr Burke started off saying,
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UN names 31 October as day of seven billion
The UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has chosen 31 October as the day on which it estimates world population will reach 7 billion – just over 12 years since the Day of Six Billion, on 12 October 1999. UNFPA is planning a series of events publicise the milestone, including a social media campaign starting on
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British PM outlines immigration cuts
British Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined his Government’s plans to return UK immigration levels to “where they were in the 1980s and 90s”. In a keynote speech to Conservative Party members on 14 April, Mr Cameron said annual immigration would be reduced from “hundreds of thousands every year” to “the order of tens of
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Attenborough: why the taboo on population?
BROADCASTER and naturalist Sir David Attenborough has questioned the ‘strange silence’ about population growth in public debate, and urged members of environmental organisations to discuss the subject openly and often. In a speech to the Royal Society of Arts in London on 10 March, hosted by its president, the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir David said there
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SPA submission lodged on population issues paper
THE NATIONAL President of Sustainable Population Australia, Hon Sandra Kanck, has urged that Australia should cease growing its population as soon as possible, pending a check that the nation is living sustainably. In SPA’s submission to the Government’s process to develop a sustainable population strategy, Ms Kanck said there was “abundant evidence” that the 22.5 million
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