hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Population growth
European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas yesterday joined the call for Australia to cut emissions by 25 to 40 per cent — the overall target range scientists say is necessary to avert dangerous climate change.
In one of three speeches to the conference, Senator Wong warned it would be difficult for Australia to meet its long-term target of a 60 per cent cut by 2050 due to its growing population and energy-intensive economy, but said strong action would ultimately secure and create jobs.
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Population growth in Australia is taken as 'a given' by politicians and bureaucrats. Any policy measure, any forecasting about the future, any public debate simply accepts, in areas where population is relevant (i.e. the environment, town planning including suburban sprawl and housing, transport, infrastructure, water) that it will grow - significantly.
But as the national population grew by as many as 336,800 new individuals in simply the one year to April 2008, the questions should be asked: Where has the idea of significant population growth been publically debated? Why is it never an election issue? Why is it an unspoken policy measure carried on by each succeeding government?
Carried on by each succeeding government? Yes...
See, 60 per cent of our national population growth comes from overseas migration, while only 40 per cent is due to 'natural increase' (domestic birth rates). So out of the near 337 thousand new Australians created in the year to April '08, either 'naturally' or via migration, roughly 202 thousand were migrants. Migration is a government initiative, a policy, even if largely unspoken. It is connected with the domestic religion of growth for the sake of growth.
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