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NEWS: 16 September 2011

Forum warns population growth will leave us ‘packed in like chickens’

The Advertiser May 08, 2010 12:01am http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/forum-warns-populatio… “In Australia for a long time, we’ve had an addiction to growth and it’s time that we questioned that addiction and did something about it,” Dr Such said. “Problems caused by growth can’t be solved by more growth. “Do we really want to live in a chook house?

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

Anglicans argue for fewer kids

 The Anglican Church wants Australians to have fewer children and has urged the federal government to scrap the baby bonus and cut immigration levels. The General Synod of the Anglican Church has issued a warning that current rates of population growth are unsustainable and potentially out of step with church doctrine – including the eighth

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

Part 20: overpopulation in 21st century America—an ignorant experiment

http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~788777.aspx   Denver Post Your Hub May 11, 2010   “More than one scientist has remarked that the human race is embarked on a vast, unplanned experiment to see what happens when we alter our environment,” said Lindsey Grant. “A refrain keeps beating incessantly in my head: we have changed the world more in the

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

We should be economically rational about mining

Apart from the irony of Rudd’s later attack on the miners as foreign companies sending their profits overseas, the Prime Minister’s defence of foreign students went to the heart of the economic, political and philosophical challenge of a mining boom creating a classic two-speed economy. That is, a commodity boom in Western Australia and Queensland

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

Population: A big problem but easy to solve

By Peter Ridd – posted to On-Line Opinion,   Thursday, 13 August 2009   http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9283&page=0   Latest statistics show that Australia’s population is growing at a rate of more than a million every three years. This growth rate is being driven primarily by record rates of immigration and a relative young population, itself a product of rapid

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NEWS: 16 September 2011

Population: a big problem but easy to solve

    By Peter Ridd – posted to On-Line Opinion, Thursday, 13 August 2009 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9283&page=0 Latest statistics show that Australia’s population is growing at a rate of more than a million every three years. This growth rate is being driven primarily by record rates of immigration and a relative young population, itself a product of rapid past

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