Jenny Goldie This title was prompted by a recent question from a member of SPA, who wondered whether the considerable money he had donated over the years had been cost effective. It led to my reflecting on whether SPA has indeed made any progress over the past 29 years since the organisation was founded. Let’s
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The Victoria and Tasmania branch will be making our presence felt during Victoria’s Sustainable Living Festival this month. During the Big Weekend 10 – 12 of February, we will be having a stall near Federation Square Melbourne. Volunteer branch members will be actively engaging with the wider public on population sustainability and its relation to
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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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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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Since 2007 Australia has experienced unprecedented population growth consisting both of natural increase and immigration. Immigration, however, accounts for the greater part of this growth, and is set to continue. If the current intake is maintained it will take the country from its present population of just under 24 million to over
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Free Public Seminar Population and Ageing: Disaster or Triumph? 7 March, 1 pm – 5 pm Bradley Forum, Hawke Centre, Uni SA, West Campus, 55 North Tce In recent years it has become common wisdom that an ageing population poses a problem for Australia. This view has been strongly promoted by
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The issue of human population has become the “elephant in the room”: huge but ignored by so many. In fact, human numbers count and count decisively. Uniquely, population is the multiplier of all. Without a humane resolution to the problem of population growth, all other causes will, sooner or later, become lost causes. It is high time to face the challenge and refute the many myths that surround it. Powerpoint presentation held at The Bridge Hotel Castle Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Wednesday, May 14 2014.
‘Skeptics in a Pub’ Meeting Powerpoint Produced as a PDF Read More »
This Declaration was passed unanimously by the participants attending the Fenner Conference on 11th October, 2013
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Parliamentarians from South Asia committed yesterday to prioritize people’s health and welfare through meeting their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs, particularly those of women and young people.
Meeting in Bangkok, MPs discussed ways to reduce the unacceptably high maternal mortality rate in South Asian countries and how to tackle problems relating to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal having the highest birth rates among adolescents.
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“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).
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