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Time to stop all this growth : Comments
By Jenny Goldie, published 23/2/2006Population growth in Australia is unsustainable in the face of water shortages, climate change and rising fuel prices.
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Indonesia will soon be past the 300 million mark and is eyeing off Papua New Guinea already.China and India are already over the billion mark and they too would like relief from pop pressures.
Just as we had the arms race and MAD[Mutual Assured Destruction],we are to degree locked into a population race as a means to a balance of power both in both an economic sense and military sense.We cannot rely on the US forever.We will soon be on our own if they get into serious trouble and many think that their Global influence is on the wan anyway.
I don't think we have much of a choice.Australia has lots of water,it just falls in selected coastal regions.It is all just about harvesting it and recycling it.
Do we want to maintain our liberal democratic way of life,or suffer invasion from one of the totalitarian regimes that surround us?If this happens,debate over maintaining populations at their present levels won't even be academic.