This is a problem attached exclusively to poverty! As national populations become better educated and affluent, this corrects itself automatically.

Making do with less is a recipe for more of the above and extremely ill-conceived by brainless morons, i.e., green fundamentalists.

The single solution other than genocide, is economic development. And as that occurs the better off nations prosper even more so as well.

It's a win, win all round with no down sides. But impossible as long as extreme capitalism sees these groups as populations to be exploited by them for, ill conceived, financial gain.

If it were not for illegal migrants crossing America's southern border the crops would not get harvested.

And the clock is ticking for the conservative republicans who continue to support this practice, all while screaming about border security.

Talk about having your cake and eating it too! These folks are part of the problem and never any part of any solution, as are tinpot dictators and green fundamentalists!
Alan B.

To make matters even worse, it’s the stupid who are the majority !

Don't tell us, tell Albanese, who's engineering 900,000 immigration, in 24 months, putting Australian population growth north of 2%.

In his woke thinking, you can have United Nations open borders, and United Nations "net zero" will fix it.

So far, no has challenged him. Political parties, state premiers, the public service, bishops and billionaires, industry, ACTU and Universities Australia, media and “think” tanks, myriad lobbyists. They're all on board.

The current Australian government appears to believe the delusion of 'green growth'. They promised to reduce power bills instead they went up year on year. Somehow Australia's rivers are supposed resemble a century ago with minimal irrigation yet we get half a million more mouths to feed every year. You'd have to think Australia's problems would be easier to solve with say 15m population rather than 26.5m. Japan is coping with an ageing population we could learn from them.

High migration could be both a scam and a cruel trick. It's clear to me that most 'temporary' migrants (students, farm workers etc) intend to seek permanent residence and perhaps bring out family. Yet they cannot afford Australia's house prices on entry level jobs. I'd like the Australian government to announce a Plan B in the event that prices for rent and electricity do not decline but remain prohibitive. If we can aspire to net zero for carbon emissions we could have net zero or negative for population growth.

Yes Taswegian, the only solution with a snowflake's chance in hell of reining in energy costs and energy created prohibitive cost of living challenges, is nuclear.

Top of that list is MSR thorium via perfected Chinese technology. Which is for sale! We should buy what we need, knowing that we cannot do it here for anything like their price to us.

Later, when our tech heads have studied the perfected item? Maybe we could mass produce our own improved version.

All this is currently undoable due to the sheer bloody-mindedness and rigid intransigeance of the (holding a nation to ransom) current idiots on the hill.

Who if they shared a fully functioning brain between them, would find it an extremely lonely one!
Alan B.

Imagine the average Australian waking up to Labor ? Imagine the Nation being run for five terms of Coalition Govt & uninterrupted by nonsensical woke civil servants ?