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By Dick Smith, published 20/4/2011Dick Smith responds to Ross Elliot and explains why population growth is not the solution to Australia's problems.
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What you wrote is rubbish really. The climate debate is not lost - the issue is very much alive. Emissions are still climbing and the Earth is warming and we are heading for disaster unless we turn the situation around. Australia has lots of land but very little of it is arable but even the soils there tend to be infertile. Our climate is variable and subject to 'droughts and flooding rains' which will get worse under climate change. The 'big polluters' that have brought us temporary material comfort are destroying the atmosphere with their emissions. Those who raised the alarm in the 1970s about famine were not wrong - we were simply given breathing space thanks to the green revolution. Now that global population is nearly twice as big, we have twice the problems. It all comes down to population and resources. We not only hit the limits, we passed them in 1979 and are now in overshoot.