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Dick Smith and the Population Debate

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Kelvin Thomson: 2009 State of Australia’s Birds Report

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Speech delivered to launch  Birds Australia,
State of Australia’s Birds Report 2009
Saturday 29th May 2010

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Majority Against High Population Growth

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The two items below emphasise the point that while the business community still favors high population growth, the Australian public (including even the relatively "New Class" audience of Radio National) is now increasingly against it.

1.  SPA member Dally Messenger has placed a reply in Business Spectator, chiding the editor Alan Kohler for his pro-population-growth take on last week's debate at the DAVOS "Future Summit":

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Conversations/The-Australian-economy-H7VMJ?OpenDocument

from Dally Messenger

27 May 2010 8:32 PM

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The Vancouver Myth Debunked

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Port of Hastings under Threat.

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Time we stopped this rapid  growth of the population before we degrade our lifestyle any further.      
 
 
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Orwellian manipulation at its worst.

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Hi SOS Members
 
I have just returned today from being an invited  panel participant in an elaborate Council run "consultation" of the Warringah community on the residential planning of that area.  I had been invited to provide an alternative viewpoint to that of developers and planners.
 
640 delegates were registered to attend, of whom 500 had been selected from the community.  They were told that the State Government has decreed that 10,300 new dwellings have to go into the council area.  It is up to Warringah Council to determine how this is to be done and the consultation was to help the Council ascertain what the community feels about various possibilities.

 

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The Impact of Mass Immigration on Canadian and Global Overpopulation

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In the following interview, Dr. Madeline Weld, President of the Population Institute of Canada, presents an excellent summary of the negative ecological impact of mass immigration to Canada, and its economic rationale.

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Population: The Big Issue

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Treasury's most recent Intergenerational Report anticipates that Australia's population will reach 36 million by 2050. Melbourne is Australia's fastest growing city, and on track to overtake Sydney, its population almost doubling to between 7 and 8 million people by mid century. So Melbourne is an appropriate place to debate the pros and cons of rapid population growth.

This is an edited broadcast of a public forum held at Melbourne's Federation Square on April 22 2010. The event was organised by the City of Melbourne as part of its free Melbourne Conversations program and supported by Future Leaders.

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A Slightly Skeptical Perspective on "Smart" Growth: It's Necessary, but Not Sufficient

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  Three years ago, Jack Marshall of the U.S.  wrote the following paper, which is posted at http://www.stopgrowthasap.org/library-articles.php#library-reading-Smart-Growth , pointing out some of the limitations of “Smart Growth.”

 
A Slightly Skeptical Perspective on "Smart" Growth: It's Necessary, but Not Sufficient

Jack Marshall, President, Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP)

Published in Population Press, Spring 2007 (Vol. 13, Number 1)

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“The Greatest Shortcoming Of The Human Race Is Our Inability To Understand The Exponential Function

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 Arithmetic, Population and Energy (copyright 2002) (aka  ‘The Most Important Video You Will Ever See’)
Dr. Albert A Bartlett,  University of Colorado 
  

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