Opinion

Part 14: Climate destabilization   Anchor Brian Williams at NBC reported that Glacier National Park plummeted from 128 glaciers at the beginning of the last century to less than 10 today. Those last 10 won’t last much longer. Why? Warm weather and more of it on the way. The same goes for glaciers in the

Part 15: Fossil fuel energy–finite Every day, you hear companies, governors and newscasters yelping about our emerging ‘green energy’ and ‘green technology’ and ‘alternative energy’. Let’s look at our self-delusion more closely. In order to drive cars, boats, planes and fuel industry, Americans burn 20 million barrels of oil daily while the rest of the

Part 16: Pollution of our planet Americans pride themselves with their clean water laws, air pollution laws and environmental protection agencies. Everyone ‘talks’ about their ‘green’ actions and practices. However, they might be surprised to note that a scant 30 percent of citizens recycle with any regularity. No matter how ‘clean’ they might think their

Dr John Coulter is Vice-President of Sustainable Population Australia and a former leader of the Australian Democrats. Nick Minchin is a former Finance and Industry Minister in the Howard Government and he’s set to retire from the Senate next year after 18 years in that chamber. They both join us in Adelaide this morning. Also

Now, Tony Burke is faced with twin challenges of developing a policy position on population that keeps enough people happy to keep him in government. We can easily run through some of the options available to Minister Burke – stimulate or dampen population growth. I suspect he would also like to encourage migration away from

An astounding 42 percent of rivers, lakes and streams in the United States remain so polluted that humans cannot enjoy any contact activity with them. The industrial world treats its drinking water to get rid of the pathogens, but we are forced more and more to recycle it,” said Grant. “The idea of drinking processed

By Frosty Wooldridge Part 18: Biodiversity and human survival As you follow this series, I hope you understand that all of us and our children face this sobering future-IF, and only IF we allow our population to grow by an astounding 100 million people as well as the rest of the planet growing by another

In this series, it’s the things that you don’t see that undermine Mother Nature’s ability to function for all living creatures and plants on this planet. While the environment ‘seems’ steady and dependable, look at the tornadoes across the Midwest in the past week or the eruption of Iceland’s volcano that shut down air traffic

The Advertiser May 08, 2010 12:01am http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/forum-warns-populatio… “In Australia for a long time, we’ve had an addiction to growth and it’s time that we questioned that addiction and did something about it,” Dr Such said. “Problems caused by growth can’t be solved by more growth. “Do we really want to live in a chook house?