In September VicTas Branch President, Michael Bayliss, represented SPA as a speaker. the Regional Development Conference in Canberra. The presentation was entitled: ‘Should Regional Australia Absorb Our Population Growth?’ Given the context that the Victorian State Government is pushing to relocate the state’s population growth to the regions, and much of the conference was about …
AUGUST 8, sadly, is Earth Overshoot Day for 2016.
I say ‘sadly’ because this annual milestone is falling on an earlier day each year, and that is a bad thing.
Overshoot is a term that ecologists use to describe the situation where people consume more than the Earth can provide on an ongoing basis.
Once we have consumed beyond this point we are effectively eating into our resource reserves, much like a farmer who takes out more water from a dam or groundwater table than the rains can replace.
We can do this for a while, but eventually the dam runs dry.
Some weeks ago SPA sent a questionnaire to six political parties asking for their policy positions re population issues. In summary, we sought to find out from each of them: Their views on the optimum population for Australia and the basis for their figure; Whether they recognise that there are environmental constraints to population growth …
“WILDLIFE Warrior Bindi Irwin is all grown up and ready to rumble.
The late Croc Hunter’s blossoming daughter turns 15 this week and is ready to swap singing and dancing for serious debate. And one of the issues closest to her heart is family planning and birth control to curb overpopulation of the planet.”
Writes Kathleen Donaghey of the Sunday Mail (Qld).
For years I concealed a terrible secret. A secret no one knew. Not my classmates, not my friends, not my siblings—not even my Mom and Dad. I tried to deny it. I tried to hide it. But I couldn’t keep it locked up inside me any longer. I sensed a building volcanic force of common …
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A new study of biological invasions in Europe found they were linked not so much to changes in climate or land cover, but to two dominant factors — more money and more people. Article Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/osu-ftm060410.php
The Northern Territory Government has announced an overhaul of legislation which governs the environmental assessment of developments. Article Link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/06/2946278.htm
Australia’s national parks are failing to save native wildlife, with mammal extinction rates of almost 50 per cent occurring in some NSW protected areas, a CSIRO scientist says. Article Link: http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/csiro-warning-of-wildlife-wipeout/1878477.aspx
Blue-tongue lizards were once the lords of Sydney’s backyards, but high-density development is banishing them to the city’s fringe. Wildlife groups are reporting that blue-tongues and other natives, such as the tawny frogmouth, are being pushed to the edge of the city by more intense development and higher human population density. Article Link: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/bluetongue-lizards-banished-from-backyard-to-city-outksirts-20100712-107yy.html
An economic study says wind farm projects in the Hallett area of the mid-north of South Australia have helped arrest population decline. Article Link:http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/14/2953096.htm
