Passed unanimously by the participants at the Fenner Conference Recognising the inextricable links between population, resources and climate change that human economic systems are dependent on natural ecological systems that a sustainable future depends on widespread ecological literacy that we are fast
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The impact of population growth, diminishing resources and climate change on Australia’s future will be discussed by scientists at the Fenner Conference on Environment, being held at the Shine Dome in Canberra on 10 and 11 October 2013. Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, Professor Paul Ehrlich, will
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Australia’s population annual growth of just under 400,000 people is absolutely unsustainable, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Figures out today from the Bureau of Statistics reveal Australia’s population grew at 1.8 per cent, with net overseas migration of 238,300 people (60%) in the year ending March 31, 2013, and natural increase of 159,100 people
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Sustainable Population Australia welcomes the opportunity to submit perspectives on the treatment of Agriculture in the international climate change discourse. We recommend that the UNFCCC acknowledge that the demands on agriculture, in any region, nation or globally, are proportional to the population to be supported, and that these demands constrain options for ...
SPA is supporting the excellent initiative of World Vasectomy Day http://riaus.org.au/events/world-vasectomy-day-2013/ Event Information: When: Friday 18 October 2013 Time: 1:00pm to 7:30pm Where: The Science Exchange, Adelaide High profile vasectomist, Dr Doug Stein, will perform vasectomies on volunteers while fielding questions from the audience. He will be joined by renowned thinkers, academics
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The political parties are not mentioning it, but high population growth is preventing Australians from having the range of necessary services required for a satisfying and productive life, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). In 2012, Australia’s population grew by 394,200 at a rate of 1.8 per cent. Net overseas migration (235,900 people) made up 60
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Parliamentarians from South Asia committed yesterday to prioritize people’s health and welfare through meeting their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs, particularly those of women and young people.
Meeting in Bangkok, MPs discussed ways to reduce the unacceptably high maternal mortality rate in South Asian countries and how to tackle problems relating to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal having the highest birth rates among adolescents.
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Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has expressed concern that Earth Overshoot Day is two days earlier than last year (August 22) and two months earlier than 20 years ago (October 21). The Global Footprint Network sets the date each year as the point at which humanity has consumed the equivalent of the year’s entire production of renewable
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A population that has grown larger than the resources required to sustain it lies at the heart of Egypt’s current political turmoil, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Egypt experienced an ‘Arab Spring’ uprising in 2011 but recently the military has sacked democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, leading to riots in which hundreds of people
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