Environment

World Environment Day Tokenistic in a World of Endless Growth

In response to the approval of the Northwest Shelf gas extension, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that World Environment Day (WED), which falls on June 5th, is tokenistic unless the environmental movement addresses the cause of our environmental issues, rather than the symptoms. SPA Spokesperson Michael Bayliss says that while the theme of the 2025 […]

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No such thing as ‘sustainable development’ for UN day for Biological Diversity

  The UN’s International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22nd, themed as ‘Harmony with nature and sustainable development‘ demonstrates complete ignorance of two basic facts, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). “Firstly, like all living creatures, humans are very much a part of nature and are the driving force for declining diversity of life

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Immigration core Federal Election Issue as 19,000 Australians call to end Big Australia

Dick Smith (AC), Prof. Ian Lowe and Prof.  Anne Poelina have joined over nineteen thousand Australians in signing a position statement calling for the stabilisation of Australia’s population. Michael Bayliss, Communications Manager for Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), says “the SPA position statement has attracted thousands of signatures in the lead up to the Federal Election. 

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Population growth weakening Australia’s water security: new report

  Water demand due to population growth is outstripping improvements in Australians’ efficiency of household water use, according to new research commissioned by Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) in a report titled Big thirsty Australia: how population growth threatens our water security and sustainability. “Since 2010, per person water use in the household sector has remained

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Hunger and poverty resurgent as world population continues to climb

  Media release (World Food Day 16/10 and International Poverty Eradication Day 17/10) Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says the first two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ‘No Poverty’ and ‘Zero Hunger’ – both by 2030 – cannot be achieved while world population continues an inexorable climb. SPA national president Peter Strachan says 692 million people

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Sustainable Population Australia welcomes Professor Anne Poelina as Patron

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed Professor Anne Poelina, a renowned First Australian academic who is very active on social equality issues, as the new patron. Prof Poelina joins respected names, including Dr Katharine Betts, Dr Paul Collins, and Professors Tim Flannery, the Hon Bob Carr, and Ian Lowe, as a patron of SPA.

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Thirty years is too long to turn a blind eye to world population growth

  September 13 marks thirty years since the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo effectively denounced population stabilisation as a development goal. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues it is time for a reset. “World population is still growing by about 90 million a year,” notes SPA spokesperson Dr Jane O’Sullivan.

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Australia is Overpopulated and has Breached its Ecological Limits

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) calls for sensible public policy that takes heed of the driest continent’s ecological limits to growth, as demonstrated by a record of steady environmental decline over the past 100 years. Capping annual net migration below 70,000 to ensure Australia’s population remains below 30 million, would limit further degradation. SPA’s President,

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