Environment

SPA will launch new documentary 8 billion angels

An excellent new feature length documentary on overpopulation will be screening as part of Melbourne’s film festival.   Sustainable Population Australia will collaborate with our international colleagues Earth Overshoot for the Australian debut screening 8 Billion Angels.   SPA Communications manager Michael Bayliss will open the screening with an introductory speech.   “8 Billion Angels takes the audience

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Growth squeezes species

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In 2010, The Australian Conservation Foundation nominated human population growth as a key threat to biodiversity in Australia.   Their submission outlines areas where the pressure is greatest. For example: In 2005, 60% of Australia’s coastal councils had an annual population growth rate greater than 3%, or at least twice the national average.   Now

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SPA South Australian branch to blitz the Adelaide environment fair

The SPA South Australia Branch will be hosting a stall at the World Environment Fair, 2-3 June, at the Wayville Showground in Adelaide.  Find out more details below. http://worldenvironmentfair.org.au/ We anticipate this event will be a fruitful ground for spreading the news about the need to limit population. Our former national President, Dr James Ward, will also be delivering

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Regional development conference 2016

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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

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Op-ed for earth overshoot day

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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.

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Blue-tongue lizards banished from backyard to city outskirts 13th July 2010

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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

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