You are absolutely right about the nature of the problems facing our community and the underlying sources. We have had massive population growth but investment in infrastructure has not kept pace. The
You are absolutely right about the nature of the problems facing our community and the underlying sources. We have had massive population growth but investment in infrastructure has not kept pace. The read more
Each person added to the population in the future will likely on average cause more damage to humanity’s critical life-support systems than did the previous person.
It will be necessary read more
The United Nations Population Division has revised its projections – see its press release at
http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Other-Information/Press_Release_WPP2010.pdf
Here’s part of The New read more
http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2012/06/The-Domino-Effect-of-Family-Planning
You may already be aware that the Environment Minister Tony Bourke is conducting an Inquiry into a Sustainable Population Strategy for Australia.
Three “expert panels” were appointed who read more
Take the oral contraceptive pill you pay about $30 to $35 for a one-month supply of pills – that is over $1 a pill. The actual cost of making them you could make one pill for a cent. So there read more
Sad news on the radio this morning. After the very effective rabbit calisivirus program in Australia in the early 1990s the government did not have the sense to follow up with eradicating the last few read more
Dear members and friends of Sustainable Population Australia-SEQ Branch
Your SEQ committee has started planning a couple of events for the coming months:
* A forum in June on Ethical Issues in Population read more
The documentary ‘Thinking Cities’ deals with one of the most dramatic societal trends happening today: urbanization. The world population is expected to soar to more than 9 billion people read more
We saw the movie ‘Contagion’ this week. It seemed pretty realistic although probably understated some aspects (breakdown of supply of food electricity petrol water computer networks).
Viruses read more
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