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Selling us down the river : Comments
By Bernard Eddy, published 29/7/2010Last week Australia was told, for the first time in a decade of subterfuge, that the privatisation of water is the aim 'moving forward'.
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With a rapidly growing population, expensive infrastructure is always required if living standards are to be maintained. So it is no surprise that utility costs have rocketed as a result of the recent population spike. The alternative view that governments have suddenly become incredibly inefficient makes no sense to me.
My view is that the idea that population growth as a driver of prosperity is an unproven, perhaps false, concept pushed by some for their financial gain. Is this view unreasonable?
One test is that of substitution. In this instance, substitute AGW as a concept. Now, some people believe that AGW is a false idea promoted by some for their financial gain. They believe that AGW has little supporting evidence, and that a substantial body of evidence is needed to support a concept. Yet, funnily enough, some of the same people accept population growth as a driver of prosperity when there is little evidence that supports it. In fact, I suspect that a grinning idiot with his thumbs up would be sufficiently persuasive for some of them.