The research also makes it clear that potential carbon impacts vary dramatically across countries. The average long-term carbon impact of a child born in the U.S. – along with all of its descendants – is more than 160 times the impact of a child born in Bangladesh. "In discussions about climate change, we tend to
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The consequences of the present population pressure are dramatic. In my opinion it is not plausible that the world’s population could double without the consequences becoming catastrophic. And yet when it is suggested that the world’s population is a problem, there is zero interest from policy makers. In my view it isn’t so much a problem as the
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The profits go to the few, and everyone else picks up the tab. By David R. Francis, Staff Writer, The Christian Science Monitor, August 17, 2009 edition Forty-five nations face a population “bust” that has some leaders wringing their hands. They worry about the costs of supporting an aging society and the loss of national
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The first edition of Overloading Australia was largely sold out in under a year, and our publisher Envirobook has decided to go ahead with a "Second Edition, Revised 2010". Copies of it should be available in February 2010, with probably some advance ones earlier. (My co-author Bill Lines was working all hours as a foreman, but was able to approve
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Now the is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
