The Forum > Article Comments > Taking the sharp edge off our fears > Comments
Taking the sharp edge off our fears : Comments
By Andrew Bartlett, published 27/1/2006Andrew Bartlett argues Australia needs to put some serious resources into multiculturalism and migrant settlement programs.
- Pages:
-
- 1
- Page 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- ...
- 36
- 37
- 38
-
- All
Australia needs to put some serious resources into peak oil mitigation strategies in order to minimise the escalation of the sorts of issues that Andrew is concerned about here. We also need to urgently reduce immigration (and temporary visas) down to at least net zero, not for multicultural reasons but for reasons of resource demand and supply and overall sustainability. This is an essential part of preparation for peak oil.
The Democrats should be shouting from the rooftops; ‘rising fuel prices gravely threaten our ability to stop racial/ethnic/cultural/religious tensions from becoming much bigger problems than they currently are, along with all manner of other simmering divisions in our society’ and ‘high immigration is an absurd policy in the current climate where our resource base is showing grave signs of stress and one of our most fundamental resources, oil, is becoming progressively more expensive and threatening to cause massive societal upheaval’
Instead, we get from Andrew; “… it is a simple fact that Australia has and will continue to have very high levels of migration.” He is presumably also resigned to us never reaching sustainability until after society implodes. I have got to ask, what does he perceive the purpose of the Democrats to be if he has this sort of attitude??