On 15 November the world will mark the arrival of 8 billion people on the Earth. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says it is a cause for concern, not celebration. SPA argues that humans have overpopulated the Earth by exceeding the boundaries that ensure the renewal of life. SPA national president, Ms Jenny Goldie, says …
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Media Alert The United Nations predicts 15 November 2022 to be the day that the world population reaches eight billion. To mark this important milestone and to aid well-informed discussion, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has released a new Briefing Note: “8 Billion Day facts and myths”, which can be viewed here. Prepared by widely-published …
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As World Food Day (Sunday 16 October) approaches, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has warned that continuing population growth in many regions is making it harder to deliver sufficient safe, nutritious food to all people. SPA notes that those countries currently experiencing food insecurity, made even worse this year by extreme weather events and the …
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If the federal government is serious about its goal to prevent any new extinctions of Australian wildlife, it must understand that preservation of habitat is the key. According to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), that requires an end to human population growth. Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek announced today a zero extinctions target for the country’s plants …
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The Chair of the national 1996 State of the Environment report has warned of adding huge numbers of people to the population when the present population is already degrading our systems irreversibly. Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe says the panel on last Sunday’s Insider program had a long discussion on bringing hundreds of thousands more people to Australia to produce …
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Sustainable Population Australia says it is no surprise but nevertheless alarming that this year’s Earth Overshoot Day (28 July) is two days earlier than last year (30 July). Earth Overshoot Day marks the day that humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year. From Earth Overshoot Day until the …
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed the acknowledgement in the State of Environment 2021 Report released today that human population growth contributes to pressures on the environment and, in particular, that it has ‘very high impact’ on biodiversity. SPA National President Ms Jenny Goldie says the report makes strong statements about population and biodiversity, …
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On this World Environment Day (June 5), Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is calling on governments to remember what the declaration from the first UN Conference on the Environment held in June 1972 in Stockholm said about population growth. It said: The natural growth of population continuously presents problems for the preservation of the environment, and …
The ability of Earth to provide food for eight billion humans is rapidly declining. Forty per cent of planet Earth’s land is now degraded. Yet, if human population growth is not halted, food for an additional two to three billion will be needed but unable to be supplied, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA national …
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On this year’s Earth Day (Friday April 22) which has the theme ‘Invest in our Planet’, Sustainable Population Australia says the best way to invest in our planet is to end population growth nationally and globally. Australia’s population growth fell to 0.3% (69,700 people) in September 2021, largely because of Covid-related border closures, from a …
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