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Call of the wild(0)
By Narelle McCarthy
Act now, act quickly and even act radically or else we will see the collapse of the planet’s natural systems that support our economies, lives and livelihoods.
That’ s the urgent warning from top level environmental scientists and some governments who provided material for a sobering report recently produced by the United Nations’ Convention [...]
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 [...]
Time for a steady-state economy
Lois Levy argues that governments should be considering a steady-state economy rather than blindly promoting unsustainable growth. Martin Rasini talks to this environmental warrior of the Gold Coast.
Veteran environmental campaigner Lois Levy views the upcoming population forums as an opportunity to highlight the unwanted social impacts of population growth and expose the thinking behind it.
Ms [...]
