Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is mourning the loss yesterday of its beloved Patron, Professor Frank Fenner AC, CMG, MBE, FRS, FAA who died aged 95. National President of SPA, Ms Sandra Kanck, said those who knew Professor Fenner described him as a "beautiful man". For many scientists in our organisation and beyond, he was the
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MELBOURNE’Selectricity prices have more than doubled in real terms over the past ten years, and will only become more expensive as population increases, Melbourne federal MP Kelvin Thomson said at a recent public forum at Richmond Town Hall. Speaking at a forum on Population: Melbourne’s Planning Puzzle on 7 November 2010, Mr Thomson said that
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THE ANGLICAN Church of Australia has warned of “catastrophic” consequences of global overpopulation and unsustainable levels of consumption by the rich. The Church’s General Synod has released a carefully-worded statement from its meeting in Melbourne (18-23 September) calling on the Australian Government to adopt a sustainable population policy and “avoid any reliance on continuing population
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POPULATION growth beyond a certain point is the equivalent to a hamster that keeps growing beyond maturity, according to Professor Garry Egger, author of Planet Obesity: How we are eating ourselves and our planet to death. Professor Egger, Professor of Lifestyle Medicine at Southern Cross University, writes that “from birth to maturity a hamster doubles
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Residents of Wyndham, a municipality 36km south-west of Melbourne whose population has nearly tripled from 50,000 to 140,000 over the past 20 years, discussed their city’s population explosion at a public meeting on 7 September 2010. The meeting was addressed by well-known advocate for a sustainable population, Labor MP Kelvin Thomson, and by Jane Nathan, President of the Australian
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On 23 August, The Sydney Morning Herald published an article by journalist Paul Sheehan under the headline "The Yarra Monster is killing us". The article quoted Professor Bob Birrell, Monash University demographer, as describing Melbourne as a "parasite economy". Professor Birrell was further quoted as saying "’Increasingly, the fiscal dividend from Australia’s mineral boom is having
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Maybe technology will come forward with new sources of energy and materials when the current ones run out. Let’s test that. Imagine that technology makes such incredible advances that we can settle all the other rocky planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus and Mars), convert them to earth-like ecosystems, and easily travel
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Yale University has recorded a highly-recommended course introducing students to basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy. Topics include: the human and environmental dimensions of population pressure demographic history economic and cultural causes of demographic change environmental carrying capacity and sustainability. Political, religious and ethical issues surrounding fertility are also addressed.
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The Victorian government in its eagerness to squeeze population growth into our city and surrounds devised an amendment to the planning act to allow development to occur on the sacrosanct Green Wedges, a new tax on tax land holders in previously rural zones on sale of land and to provide for high rise development along
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