Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that human population growth remains the root cause of the world’s most pressing environmental threats. International Condom Day, February 13, provides a platform from which to highlight that the addition of 6 billion people to Earth’s human population since 1924 is now threatening the web of life on our […]
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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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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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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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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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Globally, humans are using resources much faster than Planet Earth can replace them and the situation is much worse in Australia. Earth Overshoot Day is the day on which the Earth’s resources for that year have been expended and after that day we are eating into our children’s future. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) advises
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Our National President, Peter Strachan was interviewed accross numerous Australian radio programs for World Population Day, including 2GB with Michael McLaren which may be listened to HERE As World Population Day approaches on July 11, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says a population may survive but not thrive if it grows rapidly. SPA national president Peter
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World Environment Day (5 June) is a day to acknowledge humanity’s impacts on nature, and to lift ambition to end its destruction, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). The theme of this year’s World Environment Day reflects the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 15, namely, to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems,
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Media release for World Health Day, 7 April 2024 On the eve of World Health Day, the theme of which is ‘My Health, My Right’, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says that the right to health must include the right to sexual, reproductive and maternal healthcare services, and most importantly, access to contraception. Among
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On World Food Day, we are reminded that increasing numbers of people are going to bed hungry and population growth is the main cause, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). After decades of improvement in food security, undernourishment has been rising again in the last few years. The World Food Program (WFP) estimates as many
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