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Climate change: and the threat to our biodiversity(0)
The mainstream media excites their readers and listeners with many things. Fall under their spell and you would almost be forgiven for thinking that the biggest threat from climate change, if you still believe the scientific facts as opposed to columnists’ opinions, will be upon the size of your wallet.
Professor Roger Kitching reminds us [...]
Koalas squeezed out by population growth
By Simon Baltais
Southeast Queensland is one of Australia’s biological hotspots. It is an area where the sub-tropical and temperate regions known as the McPherson/MacLeay Overlap Zone are a region of diverse landscapes from mountain rainforest to open woodland and wallum wetlands to huge sand islands, mangroves forest, seagrass meadows and coral reefs.
It’s not surprising then [...]
The real cost of population growth
By Professor Tor Hundloe
From an economic perspective the population debate is all about scale — economies of scale and the opposite, diseconomies of scale are, the key concepts.
From the day ex-Treasurer, Peter Costello, made the extraordinary plea “to have one for the country”, we have politicians on both sides, business leaders and media commentators calling [...]
A new climate morality
Despite the wane in public interest, the majority of Australians still want action on climate change.
But, why has our response to the situation not matched the scientific and economic evidence? Do we need a greater emphasis on morals and ethics, asks Tessa Toumborou.
On his recent sceptic-funded tour of Australia, Lord Monckton, former adviser [...]
