cont'd ...

Dear ttbn,

BTW: Are you aware that the United Kingdom migration
alone is almost twice the total
humanitarian stream and ten times the number of
asylum seekers. This is followed
by New Zealand, India, the Phillipines, China,
and South Africa. According to ABS stats.

Dear ttbn,

I've just thought of something else that I'd like
to add as food for thought.

You complained about our politicians, especially
Malcolm Turnbull. I remember what Peter Costello
wrote in his Memoirs:

"It's events that make the man or woman just as
men or women make the events. For much of his life
Churchill was considered a failure, shamelessly
chasing wars around the globe, a struggling Home
Secretary, a propagator of failed military strategy
in the First World War, an undistinguished Chancellor;
but his moment came in 1940. If it had not, his career
could well have been marked as a failure."

The point that Costello was making was that a person's
influence can only be judged at the end of their career,
preferably judged years later.

Influential Australian leaders (or for that matter
influential Australians) are those who will stand the
test of time.

Richard Nixon used the quote of Sophocles, saying,

"One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the
day has been."

Foxy,

" Fossil fuels and minerals are forecast
to be exhausted in 60 - 80 years"

Hardly!!

"According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences the economically demonstrated reserves to production ratios for bituminous coal and lignite in Australia are 111 years and 539 years respectively, however these figures do not account for growth in production. Bituminous coal exports from Australia have been growing at a rate of 5% (on average during the last 20 years). If this rate of growth would-be maintained to extinction all current economically demonstrated black coal in the country would be depleted in under 40 years; however continued growth at that rate is unlikely to occur for such a long period, and this estimate does not reflect growth in the demonstrated resource. Explorations in the last decade has resulted in a significant increase in inferred coal resources which are now almost double the economically demonstrated resource"

Dear Is Mise,

Dr Beth Fulton - research scientist, Office of the
Chief Executive (OCE) and Head of Ecosystem Modelling
CSIRO stated:

"Australia's resource sector has been one of the defining
shapers of economic growth through the late 20th and early
21st century. Major fossil fuels (black coal, natural gas)
and minerals (iron ore, bauxite, copper) are forecast to
be exhausted in 60-80 years at current rates of extraction,
much sooner for other resources (gold, lead, zinc, crude oil)."

"The physical trade balance (incl. mining, manufacturing and
agricultural sectors) are forecast to show continued growth
in exports to the mid 21st century, but then to collapse
rapidly to around neutral."

I think the key words here are "forecast"
and "current rates of extraction".

When a poster whose prolific and wildly enthusiastic posts promoting 'Open Borders' , endless diversity and a 'Big Australia' starts quoting scientists there is always the real possibility of selectivity in the quotes that can alter the scientists' findings and what can reasonably be drawn for those findings. Especially where a link is not offered.

To be helpful, here is the link that a poster has forgotten,
http://theconversation.com/where-is-australia-headed-some-future-projections-12403

Questions spring to mind, with the first being, why was the scientist's reference to Australia's over-enthusiastic population growth not mentioned. The quotes somehow missed that. And what effect might such population growth have on Australia's resource sustainability, not to mention any preservation of Australian culture and way of life?

"The human aspects of Australia’s future have received a good deal of attention over the last few years. Australia’s population will increase by 50-100% by 2050"
[link above]

Population change
http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3222.0

Balance is needed, not the eye-patch worn by green leftists.

Sorry, make that the eye-patch of the 'lets have millions of diverse anyone, NOW!' multicults who are likely making a mint out of siphoning grants and entitlements from the bucket of taxpayers money.

As if anyone they or the green leftists are actually interested in the environment and sustainability anyhow. Not where they are putting their hatred of 'whites', UK, US and Europe first anyway.

The self loathing left are well named. It was always thus.