Videos

Professor Bartlett explains how even a modest percentage growth can result in huge increases in short time periods.  He goes on to explain how human population growth rates confound many when discussing the numbers.  He argues that this is not a difficult concept, it just requires an understanding of the principles of simple arithmetic.

“Global overshoot occurs when humanity’s annual demand for the goods and services that our land and seas can provide—fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, wood, cotton for clothing, and carbon dioxide absorption—exceeds what Earth’s ecosystems can renew in a year.”  This video explains, simply, the concept of Global Overshoot  (http://www.overshootday.org/ )

“A short video about the possible paths for very different futures and the human health and human rights enhancing approaches that can create tremendous positive global change, such as education for all girls and boys and family planning availability for every one. Plus, the understanding that we must love and nurture the natural world, just as we must love and nurture our children.” from Global Population Speakout.

This ‘YouTube’ video, first uploaded in 1996 and updated in 2010, is surprisingly current given the immigration tragedy now unfolding in Europe in 2015.  The real tragedy lies in the fact that the west including Australia, takes the educated or skilled from these countries and leaves behind (for the most part) the uneducated and poorest of the poor of the world.  In effect we ‘steal’ education from those countries from whom we take immigrants.  Would it be fairer if we paid these countries a fee for any immigrant based on the cost of education for those that we take in?
In this presentation by author and journalist Roy Beck, using data from the World Bank and U.S. Census Bureau the futility of immigration as a means of reducing world poverty, is explored.

“Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a low-cost land restoration technique used to combat poverty and hunger amongst poor subsistence farmers by increasing food and timber production and resilience to climate extremes.
In practice, FMNR involves the systematic regrowth and management of trees and shrubs from felled tree stumps, sprouting root systems or seeds. The regrown trees and shrubs – integrated into crops and grazing pastures – help restore soil structure and fertility, inhibit erosion and soil moisture evaporation, rehabilitate springs and the water table, and increase biodiversity. Some tree species also impart nutrients such as nitrogen into the soil. For more information see the FMNR website. A review article of this technique is available for download.