Just one question,"How are you going to accommodate all the extra 25 odd million people. Our major cities are becoming dysfunctional now?"

David

Don't worry Everald,Maurice Strong and the New World Order are working on it.Strong is quoted as saying that he wants to reduce the world's pop to 2 billion.With the new environmental Nazis they can make it very expensive to produce food and tax carbon the source of life and energy.Will you put your hand up for the first to be culled?
Or will Bob Brown take your place?

Well Everald, one way of fixing your problem is to eat everyone over 70. That would lower consumption while paradoxically releasing more money via forced bequests, back in to the economy.

Or, we could dismantle capitalism (the most favoured option of the anti-pops), erect trade barriers and force refugees, immigrants and international students to dismantle most of the nations infrastructure as it will rot through disuse.

Or, we elect Clover Moore and live in a world of fluffy toys, cuddly blankets and love.

Well done Arjay - first to introduce 'culled'. Did you actually read the article?

I do think its a bit rich, however, to preach stringent birth control world-wide and at the same time plan to continue Australia' population growth to 50 million by poaching the best and brightest from other countries. Surely the whole point of a one child policy is that populations will stabilise, then decline. Shouldn't we jump in the deep end and live with the consequences of that from the start? Anything else would be hypocritical. Anyway, there is no need in Australia to enact draconian population control measures. Without immigration we reproduce below replacement level, even with the baby bonus. What is desperately needed is a viable steady-state economic model so people won't feel threatened by a non-expanding population.

At a time when third world observation of first world lifestyle becomes more common place through enhanced broad scale communications, third world expectations are naturally increasing

At the same time where first world populations are stable/in decline third world numbers are exploding

If you want to fix the population issue you have several options

Introduce mandatory birth control – problem China and India have both done it one way or another and without success

Have a war or two – expensive form of birth control, often with unpredictable outcomes

Leave it to a plague – apparently this has had some success with AIDs in Africa

Stop the do-gooders and missionaries curing all the ills, which kept population numbers closer to “under control”, in the past

Do nothing and leave people to starve in the chaos

When I consider the arrogance and vested interests involved when the “powers of men” get involved in anything of significance – like all this supposed Climate Change rubbish and the ensuing disaster they would take us on

I think chaos, starvation and survival of the fittest is a reasonable option and it is remarkably cost effective (relative to the other options)…..

Cheryl “That would lower consumption while paradoxically releasing more money via forced bequests, back in to the economy.”

Being 60+ I would suggest - better we are better to eat the children

They have less knowledge to lose
They have no artistic appreciation to pass on
They are more “dependent” more than the elderly

And, of course, their soft young flesh is much tastier than knotted, precancerous and arthritic old limbs …

Col Rouge,

A Modest Proposal, indeed - re: your parting comments.

"Leave it to a plague - apparently this has had some success with AIDS in Africa."

It seems there is a push in the opposite direction.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/14/3242885.htm

Perhaps it might help if the West stopped plundering the third world long enough for living standards to be raised.
http://globalenvision.org/library/23/1524