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Opening Australia’s borders : Comments

By Tiziana Torresi, published 4/11/2005

Tiziana Torresi examines the argument for relaxing immigration laws and finds its supporters are misguided.

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Tiziana Torresi does not acknowledge that much more than social justice may be at stake in the debates over immigration. Some of us perceive that the human population of the world is in overshoot -- it's too large to be sustained. Indeed it is more than plausible that the current population of Australia is not sustainable. If this is so, cessation of immigration may be a matter of the survival of civilized life in Australia.

Most equalitarian commentators perceive that social justice can be obtained by sharing the fruits of the Earth. It is remotely conceivable that they may be right today, but they are innocent of an imminent future in which a reduced ability of the Earth to support us will make them wrong.

"What to do in a failing civilization", http://tinyurl.com/ey83c

"Overshoot in a nutshell (Malthus was an optimist)", http://tinyurl.com/q45aa
Posted by davidmdelaney, Saturday, 23 September 2006 12:24:04 AM
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