SPA newsletter 99 – Aug 2011
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National food plan submission
Here is SPA’s submission to the National Food Plan consultation that was run by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (see http://www.daff.gov.au/agriculture-food/food/national-food-plan). From the submission: “SPA submits that, in preparing a national food plan, the government must deal with the reality that no environmental problem can be solved by human population growth and indeed
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A population parable
Once there was a village with 10 families who shared a 1000 litre waste bin between them. This meant they could each put in 100 litres of waste before the bin was full. The waste collection truck would come each month and swap the bin with another 1000 litre bin. However one day the waste
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Dick Smith’s population crisis
“One day a politician will be brave enough to speak the obvious but forbidden truth: that on a finite planet we cannot continue to exponentially increase our consumption of natural resources, nor survive as a civilisation if we keep adding billions more people to our already swelling planet. Until then, I fear we are creating
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Migrants and house prices – response to HIA from SPA Victoria (AUG)
Aug 8, 2003 Ron Silberberg of the Housing Institute of Australia said today (8 August 2003) that migrants are being unfairly blamed for high house prices (Migrant bogey blame shift, a statement by HIA’s Managing Director, Ron Silberberg 8 Aug 2003). “This is a bit rich”, said Sheila Newman, Population and Land-use sociologist and President
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Overloading Australia
This is the first book published in Australia that argues the ‘heretical’ view that Australia is overpopulated, and that government plans to increase our population by another 40 per cent by 2050 are irresponsible folly. Mark O’connor and William Lines show why it is necessary to cap Australia’s population growth, and that it is possible
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The population bomb
This description is from the Wikipedia article on The Population Bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb) The Population Bomb was a best-selling book written by Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich (who was uncredited), in 1968. It warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major
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SPA newsletter 84 – Feb 2009
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SPA newsletter 96 – Feb 2011
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SPA newsletter 97 – Apr 2011
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