Opinion

VIEWPOINT The global population is higher than the Earth can sustain, argues the Director of the British Antarctic Survey in the first of a series of environmental opinion pieces on the BBC News website entitled The Green Room. Solving environmental problems such as climate change is going to be impossible without tackling the issue, he

A recent article in the AGE Newspaper by Royce Millar, highlights the potential expansion of Melbourne’s metropolitan boundaries to the North and West of the City.  The rezoning will increase land values in these areas as previous farming land is converted to housing blocks.  The windfall gains to some developers could be as high as

This self-assessment of the ‘progress’ over the last 12 months highlights all the good things in life, tax cuts, new trade training centres in high schools, the 2020 ideas summit, the ‘sorry’ statement to indigenous Australians, signing the Kyoto Protocol and computers in schools (to name just a few) as its past year’s progress.  

Tony Smith, writing a letter to the editor in The Herald Sun (23/02/09) reminds Victorians that current projected population increases mean “a 28% rise for Victoria in less than 17 years.” He reminds those with a pro-growth mentality that “an environment exists without an economy, but an economy can’t exist without an environment”.

Brian Cunningham, writing for SA’s The Advertiser on the 17th of February, ignores the environmental reality of population growth. He argues that increasing population growth increases wealth by expanding the economy, providing a bigger local market and increasing the skills base. Bob Couch, of Marino, reminds hims of this in his Letter to the Editor. Bob argues

Adam Cresswell, Health editor | March 07, 2009 – Article from: The AustralianHALTING the world’s rocketing population growth is the key to solving global warming — a solution that has been ignored or overlooked by leading climate change advocates.That was the warning yesterday from an Australian health expert, who said UN forecasts of a global

I’ve always felt that logic and sound evidence provide a pretty solid foundation for good policy-making. But some issues are more amenable to logic than others, and population is clearly the least amenable of all. I’m in the population doghouse yet again. On 1st February the Sunday Times carried a front page story based on

Mark O’Connor, co-author with Bill Lines of ‘Overloading Australia,’ was published in the Opinion section of South Australia’s The Advertiser last week. Writing that “Australia’s bizarrely high population growth lies behind many of our worst problems,” Mark pointed out that many of the environmental problems we face in Australia today – including water shortages, unaffordable housing, excessive

Nadya Suleman had 14. And they should all be taken from her and raised by fit parents. Seriously, I could care less about the fact that she’s unmarried, unemployed, unable to convince herself that she’s not Angelina Jolie. She’s a criminal. She’s a murderer. She’s not only guaranteeing her kids a very hard life, she’s

Recent projections published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics set out a range of possible demographic futures for Australia. This article examines 12 of these which all share the same life expectancy assumptions, but which differ in their assumptions for fertility and net overseas migration. It shows that all of the projection series that include