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Professor Ian Plimer’s views on the cause of climate change are not only completely wrong but dangerous because they will distract attention from the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, according to Sustainable Population Australia Inc.(SPA) National president of SPA, Ms Sandra Kanck, says that, in a dangerously overcrowded world, people and other species have

If greenhouse gas emissions are to be cut to levels that the Federal Government has promised under the Kyoto Protocol, that is 60 per cent by 2050, then population numbers must be stabilised and then allowed to fall, according to Sustainable Population Australia Inc (SPA). Speaking on the eve of Earth Day, SPA National President

Sustainable Population Australia www.population.org.au [email protected] 4th April, 2009 At its AGM this afternoon, former South Australian state MP, Hon. Sandra Kanck, will take on the position of national president of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Ms Kanck says she is taking on the position at a time when more people are understanding that most of the

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) will hold its national AGM and a mini-conference in Adelaide tomorrow which will address the issues of population in relation to climate change, peak oil and economics. Incoming national president of SPA, Ms Sandra Kanck, says that Australians are already living unsustainably, and growing our population simply adds to the problems

Sustainable Population Australia Inc (SPA) warmly congratulates the Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, on his decision today to lift Australia’s version of the ‘global gag rule’. The gag rule was a guideline that prevented Australian overseas aid money going to any non-government organisation that undertook or even advised on abortion, including in countries where abortion was

‘Most economic commentators assume that changes in GDP are proxy measures for changes in human welfare,’ says Dr Coulter. ‘Accepting for the moment that this is the case, then change in GDP per person, rather than gross GDP, is actually a better measure of welfare. ‘If we look at per capita rather than gross GDP,