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» 27/08/2012 10:06:11 AM Graham - I have been such a fool! I actually thought that worthwhile and educational agume.....
» 25/08/2012 10:38:14 PM Graham, do you seriously want us to believe that Malcolm King who was apparently, "di.....
» 25/08/2012 5:09:21 PM "There is indeed no point in arguing with you Michael if your only form of rebuttal i.....
» 25/08/2012 12:49:22 AM (continued) "I'll take the market signals before your experts' opinions on this issu.....
» 25/08/2012 12:48:24 AM Hi Graham, replies between your lines: "Michael, when the facts change I change my m.....
» 24/08/2012 9:26:56 AM Hasbeen - obviously you have not listened to or read anything by Art Berman either! Do so .....
» 24/08/2012 9:19:18 AM What a selfish attitude by Jon J. Let's not plan for the future? Let future generations co.....
» 23/08/2012 9:29:11 PM Graham, prepare to be stunned: Colin Campbell predicted the current economic malaise in 2.....
» 23/08/2012 10:24:06 AM )Julie - I know that people have been to see you about peak oil and have explained the sit.....
» 22/08/2012 10:43:50 AM Your arguments about zero-growth equilibrium only apply in a world of constant resource av.....
» 21/08/2012 9:52:19 AM Keith - aren't you meant to be a member of the Club of Rome? What is it about limits to gr.....
» 15/08/2012 10:00:40 AM About the only good think you can say about this silly article is that it was not written .....
» 9/08/2012 9:47:24 AM Foreboding indeed, especially when Australia is so dependent on fuel from Singapore (since.....
» 9/08/2012 9:36:16 AM China should not be allowed to buy Australian land until, at least, Australians can buy la.....
» 6/08/2012 10:04:30 AM The trouble with the whole "densification" movement is that its proponentsa are .....
» 3/08/2012 9:21:42 AM But the carbon tax DOES make sense if you are using it as a cover to move society away fro.....
» 2/08/2012 9:25:58 AM A very good essay Cameron and I agree with you about the value of Greer's writings. Publis.....
» 30/07/2012 11:26:15 AM P.S. It's always interesing to check out how things are going at the "Arrest Blair&qu.....
» 30/07/2012 11:22:46 AM Spot on John P!.....
» 27/07/2012 9:56:07 AM A great article Tom. Well worth redistributing. And Cheryl is right - it would be surpris.....
» 19/07/2012 6:40:34 PM Thanks for all your accusations JohnBennetts. If you read my previous comment carefully yo.....
» 19/07/2012 9:30:01 AM "The 'peak oil' idea is dead because of the massive rise in shale oil and gas product.....
» 12/07/2012 10:21:11 AM There is no way that the USA can balance its need to reduce debt versus the idea that it m.....
» 1/07/2012 1:05:08 PM In this article Vaclav Smil explains why we will not see an IFR future: http://spectrum.i.....
» 21/06/2012 3:13:26 PM Shadow/Ben/Tom - you don't appear to appreciate (or you just ignore) that we are at energy.....
» 21/06/2012 7:55:21 AM Following this conversation is so extremely odd in a way. In South Australia where Ben and.....
» 19/06/2012 5:08:49 PM Interesting that my relatively mild bit of "abuse" can be deleted by OLO but whe.....
» 19/06/2012 8:54:58 AM I am impressed by the passion of the defenders of theoretical IFRs. While this is a guess.....
» 18/06/2012 6:12:05 PM Sodium-carrying pipes sheathed in inert gas? Would you like to make it more complicated (a.....
» 18/06/2012 8:53:46 AM A sodium fire is one thing. A radioactive sodium fire is another thing altogether! How do .....
» 18/06/2012 8:18:59 AM (continued) "A fuel cycle will probably take about three years, and several cycles wi.....
» 18/06/2012 8:18:22 AM Let's be clear here - Barry Brook is not a nuclear physicist - he is an activist supportin.....
» 6/06/2012 10:27:39 AM Would Israel recognise a nation called, "The Aryan State" ? I don't think so!.....
» 4/06/2012 10:08:01 AM From the presentation on OLO's home page I thought this article was to be about our future.....
» 1/06/2012 10:05:51 AM "...solutions are within reach." If you do not address the issue of population .....
» 31/05/2012 9:19:29 AM Interesting article, especially since it illustrates well how nobody and no nation can esc.....
» 29/05/2012 9:57:32 AM And after the political decisions are made the money needs to be found - and that is where.....
» 25/05/2012 1:35:37 PM Hi Jago, I admire your work on oil vulnerability in cities but if you want these ideas to .....
» 23/05/2012 10:51:19 PM Nice article William. We take only a small number of refugees - especially when you consi.....
» 21/05/2012 10:08:46 AM Wow - this article started with lies and then it was all downhill from there. There is no .....
» 16/05/2012 9:54:41 AM I give up Curmudgeon. When I have ever said oil is about to run out? Show me the post? But.....
» 16/05/2012 9:46:56 AM Simple arguments about space are meaningless. Yes, Australia has a lot of space - most of .....
» 15/05/2012 2:29:16 PM " I wonder if you can see the hypocrisy of writing anti-population articles 'while th.....
» 15/05/2012 2:26:05 PM Curmudgeon - you keep trying to ridicule peak oil concerns by referring to reserve sizes w.....
» 15/05/2012 11:58:49 AM Curmudgeon, Like Cheryl and other diverse trolls on this site your main tactic is to redef.....
» 14/05/2012 9:44:45 AM Blah, blah, blah ..........
» 10/05/2012 9:16:27 AM The solution is to stop increasing the population through high immigration rates since thi.....
» 30/04/2012 12:17:56 PM Bernie - you are miles behind here in the energy debate. The alternatives don't currently .....
» 30/04/2012 10:18:09 AM Congratulations Bernie Masters - you have just presented the energy economics argument aga.....
» 30/04/2012 10:14:29 AM If you read pages 182 and 183 from Paul Robert's book "End of Oil" published in .....
» 27/04/2012 10:10:39 AM The scandal I remember best from RMIT was this one from 2003 (so this is an institution th.....
» 26/04/2012 10:50:44 AM I see. So now Julie you are wrapping yourself in the Australian flag after ANZAC day and w.....
» 15/04/2012 4:05:30 PM Dear Cheryl, A big victory for your "antipops" in Adelade today: http://tinyur.....
» 12/04/2012 10:13:40 PM Cheryl - you are drifting from simple abuse into incoherence. I am having trouble followin.....
» 12/04/2012 8:46:17 AM There are so many good arguments against growing Australia's population - both economic an.....
» 2/04/2012 10:11:07 AM In a world of decreasing energy such huge infrastructure dreams have no future. The fundin.....
» 29/03/2012 11:18:33 AM stevenlmeyer, Iran has wanted a civilian nuclear programme since the time of the US-backe.....
» 29/03/2012 9:26:19 AM Well I hope the article earns Ms Bishop a nice big fat donation from the support-Israel-at.....
» 27/03/2012 8:45:51 AM Here is one prominent Australian's take on why Labor lost the election - an opinion also h.....
» 22/03/2012 11:16:47 AM Ah Cheryl - your type never ceases to put words in other's mouths. I did not say "so .....
» 22/03/2012 8:51:36 AM I wish I had an economist's brain and could take such a simplistic view of the world. This.....
» 22/03/2012 8:39:56 AM And the point you are trying to make is......?.....
» 16/03/2012 10:39:50 AM So depressing which ever way you interpret it. Obviously the solution is just to stop pump.....
» 15/03/2012 8:53:34 AM Go study science Warwick if you want to understand what "natural laws" really ar.....
» 15/03/2012 8:48:45 AM The IEA was set up by the OECD and has shown itself to be a puppet of the USA by suppressi.....
» 24/02/2012 9:10:08 AM The Labor Party was so deperate over Rudd's unpopularity that they threw him out as PM. An.....
» 23/02/2012 9:23:58 AM The thought of Abbott as prime minister is almost too terrifying to contemplate. If there .....
» 22/02/2012 9:16:28 AM A great article by Australia's unofficial energy/environment national treasure, Dave Kimbl.....
» 21/02/2012 8:57:53 AM 3- to 4-year election cycles mean that our politicians are more interested in keeping thei.....
» 13/02/2012 12:10:17 PM What none of these people leaving comments seem to understand is that Peak Oil is not abou.....
» 7/02/2012 10:49:50 AM Do you seriously think that a rates cut (of a few hundred dollars a year?) is going to mak.....
» 7/02/2012 10:41:34 AM Yes, hipocrisy has become a specialty of western politics. It is rather sickening to see t.....
» 25/01/2012 8:42:50 AM If those are the best examples that Vic can come up with then there would not appear to be.....
» 23/01/2012 12:00:30 PM A few years ago I would have had grave doubts about the veracity of Pilger's view. However.....
» 17/01/2012 9:25:20 AM You are quite correct that environmental activism without restricting population growth is.....
» 6/01/2012 8:09:50 AM Once again euthanasia is being confused with assisted suicide. None of us have the choice.....
» 12/12/2011 8:52:05 AM The Dutch are far from stupid or gullible. I am sure than anyone who knew the history of h.....
» 1/12/2011 8:29:40 AM Nicely said Ted. Pity you are going to get hammered at this site by the usual dolts - but .....
» 29/11/2011 10:02:21 PM Atman, If you want to believe that there are no limits to growth then you need to explain.....
» 28/11/2011 9:00:40 AM Einstein also said that, "The most powerful force in the universe is compound interes.....
» 23/11/2011 1:24:07 PM Excuse me Loudmouth - did I ever say that my solution was, "to wipe out excess popula.....
» 23/11/2011 8:49:25 AM You are right Curmudgeon but also wrong. Certainly the wealth and peace of a nation has a .....
» 23/11/2011 8:35:44 AM Yes, the alternative to all this concern about urban sprawl or densification is to stabili.....
» 22/11/2011 2:22:52 PM rstuart - you've shown me up! Yes, I seem to have a poor memory and obviously like beating.....
» 22/11/2011 12:19:54 PM Curmudgeon, All the high density but wealthy states like Hong Kong or the UK only maintai.....
» 22/11/2011 8:54:15 AM I can only agree with the author. One has to be extremely pessimistic that Egypt will ever.....
» 15/11/2011 8:40:13 AM Two things to help deal with the climate refugee crisis (that is actually an overpopulatio.....
» 11/11/2011 3:00:01 PM An article on a return to gravel roads in the USA: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/20.....
» 10/11/2011 8:08:43 AM I love it when Indians - coming from a culture where racism is institutionalised, i.e. the.....
» 8/11/2011 11:31:36 AM Yuyutsu - why should people who take care of the elderly (or our infants for that matter) .....
» 7/11/2011 1:10:16 PM 579 - it was the generation before the Baby Boomers - that lived through the Depression an.....
» 7/11/2011 8:40:29 AM In Adelaide, the amount of infill developing going on to build three or four compact homes.....
» 1/11/2011 9:14:54 AM Wize words Lao Zi!.....
» 31/10/2011 9:10:14 PM It is a pity that the level of debate at OLO is so degenerate. Nothing will convince the l.....
» 31/10/2011 10:04:52 AM A very interesting article Michael. Thank you! It is sobering to think that Knibbs was mak.....
» 24/10/2011 8:31:17 AM Unfortunately, this is just another example of how urban planners ignore the fact that cit.....
» 19/09/2011 9:37:00 AM "And the idea that Australians might run short of food because it is grown on foreign.....
» 19/09/2011 9:23:14 AM What "evidence" can there be of allegations of rape that occurred over 40 years .....
» 16/09/2011 11:59:22 AM People are always leaving anywhere and people are also arriving. SA's population is explod.....
» 16/09/2011 11:27:55 AM Wrong Cronus - the matter was NOT under police investigation and the Catholic church was d.....
» 16/09/2011 10:07:45 AM Loveday - if you had looked at the Adelaide Advertiser online poll on this issue you would.....
» 16/09/2011 9:01:03 AM Malcolm, Your "opinion" piece is a complete crock! Xenophon is a hero here in SA.....
» 12/09/2011 10:25:16 AM Cheryl, how many decades has it been since you were last in Adelaide.........
» 12/09/2011 10:07:16 AM This article is similar to the boosterish crap we have to listen to in Adelaide's Murdoch-.....
» 5/09/2011 9:30:19 AM Hi Julian, I really admire the work you are doing making Australian's aware of their impen.....
» 16/08/2011 10:31:56 AM My wife works in IVF and some of their most common customers are farmers with fertility pr.....
» 3/08/2011 1:45:39 PM Well, the grumpy old misogynists are out in force today!.....
» 3/08/2011 10:10:23 AM Bullseye Fiona! This guy speacialises in spinning falsehoods that serve the pro-growthist .....
» 19/07/2011 9:53:48 AM The most important thing the Greens could do to increase the liveabilty of our cities woul.....
» 10/06/2011 9:54:34 AM I agree with Ted that I cannot see how capitalism is compatible with a steady state econom.....
» 1/06/2011 9:30:32 AM The tragedy is that our economy is about to be "decarbonised" whether we like it.....
» 20/05/2011 8:07:38 PM Food security is an issue because Australia cannot feed double its population on its curre.....
» 17/05/2011 10:01:10 AM Great stuff Cameron! Pity there will be so many bleaters and knockers after this comment t.....
» 9/05/2011 9:39:27 AM Hi Martin, There is a problem with the text of your article so I could not read it yet bu.....
» 9/05/2011 9:27:30 AM "Shale gas was thought to be as inaccessible as clathrates, and when it began to be e.....
» 6/05/2011 9:51:37 AM The Labor Party has become completely corrupted by its relationship with the property indu.....
» 19/04/2011 9:28:11 AM How silly not to talk about curbing population growth! Like seven steps to cure alcoholism.....
» 13/04/2011 11:01:42 AM Nit-picking! Space travel is a very high risk business and Gagarin was an exceptionally b.....
» 23/02/2011 12:59:32 PM You don't have to be Lester Brown to see that food prices are rising, water tables are fal.....
» 15/02/2011 9:11:41 AM Curmudgeon, you will be sad to hear that most of the fracking/shale gas hype is just that .....
» 15/02/2011 8:57:51 AM And of course the fundamental problem underlying this is population growth that creates th.....
» 14/02/2011 10:34:18 AM Hi. It's difficult to see how methane hydrates could be harvested at an energy profit - al.....
» 14/02/2011 8:27:26 AM Hi Philip, If you are new to peak oil then, as a computer scientist, you will enjoy this .....
» 26/01/2011 4:09:17 PM If you want to see how poorly workers can be treated and exploited in Australia see what h.....
» 25/01/2011 11:00:48 PM Nice article Chris. Far from being involved in free trade, the history of China's manufact.....
» 24/01/2011 10:59:25 AM Yes, the world is a scary place when the "new world order" no longer means that .....
» 18/01/2011 10:10:27 AM Interestingly, this comment supports what Prof. Bartlett has always said in his famous lec.....
» 14/01/2011 9:48:55 AM Yes, what we have not heard mentioned much so far in the crisis is how it has been made wo.....
» 12/01/2011 9:25:08 AM This article completely ignores the that world's resources are finite and that economic ac.....
» 11/01/2011 1:54:19 PM Dean K, The 127 million people of Japan are almost entirely dependent upon imported energy.....
» 10/01/2011 9:11:25 AM In some ways it is possile to liken the scientific process to arguments in court but this .....
» 15/12/2010 10:21:10 AM http://www.dark-mountain.net/wordpress/2010/08/01/terms-of-dismissal/.....
» 14/12/2010 6:56:44 PM Craig, you are labouring under the illusion that you have a choice to go nuclear. What I a.....
» 14/12/2010 4:06:43 PM I just "hope" people will not waste too much of our remaining energy clinging to.....
» 14/12/2010 3:30:12 PM Hi Craig, That would be the most common opinion among economists but with developers curr.....
» 14/12/2010 9:59:35 AM Hi Craig. Rather than using boundless descriptors such as "absolutely huge" try .....
» 13/12/2010 3:25:59 PM Hi Hasbeen, It will take a lot longer than 10 years for the oil to "run out" bu.....
» 13/12/2010 2:02:08 PM Maybe Craig - but you have to build the nuclear plant first before you can consume the ene.....
» 13/12/2010 1:26:44 PM Since it is actually energy rather than money that is required to build any of these techn.....
» 26/10/2010 8:43:19 AM And after Melbourne gets to 7 million and they say we need to continue population growth w.....
» 20/09/2010 10:53:51 AM There is a cost to the future economy of avoiding recessions - some economists view recess.....
» 7/09/2010 10:09:04 AM Before sounding off with an apparently uninformed opinion on the potential of terrestrial .....
» 23/08/2010 10:00:27 AM The faults in Helen's argument are the failure to define "mark" and the idea tha.....
» 11/08/2010 8:50:46 AM Dilan - here's a newsflash. Foreign students are meant to come, get educated AND LEAVE. We.....
» 5/08/2010 11:11:35 AM It is shameless how both the Labor and Liberal Party have exploited the refugee issue to d.....
» 3/08/2010 11:47:29 AM JJPLUG - ever heard of academic freedom? I was so depressed to hear that Gillard's former.....
» 15/06/2010 10:12:01 AM James Paterson is yet to learn the lesson that the future need not be like the past. Assum.....
» 4/06/2010 10:23:50 AM A very interesting essay. Thank's for pointing out, "To “advance religion” has been .....
» 4/06/2010 10:08:12 AM As I see it there are two problems with the Burqa: 1) Any person who does not show their .....
» 25/05/2010 11:59:15 AM Yes undidly, but where will you grow their food while they are standing there?.....
» 25/05/2010 10:25:48 AM "So the truth is being crushed by the anti density zealots on one side and pro-densit.....
» 20/05/2010 2:54:12 PM Actually Jerome a Paris is described as: "Jérôme Guillet (energy banker, "Jérôm.....
» 20/05/2010 2:17:39 PM Maybe some of you (Lawson included) would be interested in reading this article: "Wi.....
» 19/05/2010 10:35:59 AM Urban "Planning" as a discipline has been based on the idea that provision of fo.....
» 19/05/2010 10:02:00 AM The reason why parents in developing nations sell their property and send the kids to Aust.....
» 15/05/2010 5:53:03 PM How did "dalma" get to post three times in less than two hours? Stephen Long on.....
» 14/05/2010 12:57:06 PM Realise also that the mining companies are terrified that if one country gets away with th.....
» 14/05/2010 10:07:18 AM Remember, this is the woman that, when the GFC first hit, was on Radio National's PM progr.....
» 12/05/2010 9:54:27 AM Yet another foaming diatribe to follow Malcolm's effort of last December (a must read for .....
» 3/05/2010 11:30:00 AM "On balance, the problems associated with a growing population are more manageable th.....
» 20/04/2010 11:03:18 AM It's like Deja vu all over again! What's the matter OLO? Did you like this crap so much yo.....
» 17/04/2010 11:14:42 PM This YaleGlobal Online stuff that is getting reprinted on OLO seem to be seriously deniali.....
» 5/02/2010 10:01:12 PM Cheryl - instead of ranting in the comments section I think it is time for you to actually.....
» 11/01/2010 11:46:40 AM Geoff and Christoper, As either scientist or politician you should also be interested in .....
» 11/01/2010 11:31:11 AM It is not only frogs and bees that are threatened by pesticides. My wife works in an in vi.....
» 8/01/2010 9:23:58 AM Get serious Peter, "Hopefully, with the failures of 2009 in mind, a shift towards su.....
» 8/01/2010 8:58:03 AM "Futureye" is, apparently, blind to the implications of fossil fuel limitations .....
» 7/01/2010 11:35:17 AM Since the world - including Australia - is already in a state of ecological overshoot we a.....
» 14/12/2009 12:18:49 PM PeterA, The beauty of biogas is that you still have your phosphate etc. left after gas pro.....
» 14/12/2009 10:57:36 AM For reasons of production simplicity, (including simplicity of separation from the substra.....
» 14/12/2009 10:46:08 AM Limiting personal consumption levels is necessary but not enough. You also need to limit t.....
» 11/12/2009 9:52:52 AM Malcolm, congratulations on a nearly incomprehensible rant dripping with contempt and fals.....
» 17/11/2009 9:00:21 AM A simpler explanation is that the reason that property has become so unaffordable in Austr.....
» 16/11/2009 9:00:08 AM Ross, my grandmother was a refugee, my mother was a refugee, my wife was a refugee and I t.....
» 12/11/2009 11:13:13 AM The choice is between stopping the rise in housing prices now (by cutting back on immigrat.....
» 2/11/2009 10:45:38 AM What Kevin avoids mentioning is that infrastructure does not create resources, it only dis.....
» 30/10/2009 12:12:23 PM Clownfish - since thermodynamics set limits on everything we do quoting it almost any argu.....
» 16/10/2009 10:12:25 AM Unfortunately the most important "solution" was not listed - stopping population.....
» 9/10/2009 9:38:54 AM There is little point in trying to restore faith in a financial and economic system that d.....
» 8/10/2009 11:35:06 AM Hi rpg. Population is limited by food availability so if fertilizer allowed greater provis.....
» 7/10/2009 10:39:30 AM Cheryl, please describe how the world does not operate as a "closed system" so t.....
» 7/10/2009 9:27:50 AM Of course, food security is about both supply and DEMAND. In other words, increasing food .....
» 6/10/2009 9:59:43 AM At www.theoildrum.com, "Big Gav" has written an interesting article on Borlaug. .....
» 1/10/2009 3:46:59 PM Very interesting Colinsett! It would be great if you could post some sources on these less.....
» 30/09/2009 9:51:10 AM Many thanks OLO for reprinting this highly amusing piece! I had a chuckle at "enemies.....
» 29/09/2009 11:47:20 AM Dear Stezza, The comment comes from this peak oil discussion group: http://groups.yahoo......
» 29/09/2009 10:17:09 AM Scott Ritter, the former Iraq WMD inspector who predicted that no WMDs would be found by t.....
» 28/09/2009 10:12:10 AM (continued from previous comment) So now the facility they are building at Qom is at the .....
» 28/09/2009 10:11:15 AM Having largely depleted its own internal sources of hydrocarbon energy and now being depen.....
» 23/09/2009 11:16:40 AM Geoff - we are trying to make contributions to the debate but how does your comment help i.....
» 23/09/2009 10:12:42 AM Good one Aaron! Reminds me of a line I read elsewhere about activism that it is not enough.....
» 23/09/2009 10:01:53 AM A nicely written essay but it is all (vaguely) about planning and not about resilience. To.....
» 16/09/2009 11:10:12 AM You will find this online recorded lecture by another Western Australian, Jim Buckee very .....
» 15/09/2009 10:22:06 AM Don't worry Curmudgeon - I wont bother you again......
» 14/09/2009 3:21:41 PM Curmudgeon, see between your lines below: "What about the the enormous oil discoveri.....
» 3/09/2009 1:06:02 PM Ziggy - you might be interested to read this paper in full. (Note: rate of innovation is i.....
» 3/09/2009 11:24:34 AM Ziggy - here's another prediction: By 2030 the logistics swarm of raw materials, processed.....
» 27/08/2009 11:18:42 AM Fortunately the Haber-Bosch process can also be run using coal. Of greater concern (in ter.....
» 18/08/2009 10:03:43 AM Pity the urban designers: caught between the rapacious and politically influential "b.....
» 10/08/2009 10:30:12 AM Interesting article. Nice to see someone crunching the numbers rather than just accepting .....
» 1/08/2009 8:35:16 PM Lottie, what about a child's rights - such as to a healthy life? Is that not more importan.....
» 30/07/2009 12:08:45 PM Personally, I am amazed by this debate over rights to homebirth etc.. We hear so much abou.....
» 21/07/2009 12:53:20 PM I am completely shocked but I actually agree with Curmudgeon! (??!) The article sounds lik.....
» 15/06/2009 10:00:46 AM What also happened in the 1970s is the the USA's production of oil began to decline forcin.....
» 12/06/2009 4:53:03 PM rpg, I'm sure there were people like you deriding the doomsayers before the previous 20-od.....
» 27/05/2009 3:34:07 PM Tragically, projections from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that, at our high ra.....
» 27/05/2009 10:50:06 AM Forming a new political party is complex and time-consuming. Then it can take decades to w.....
» 26/05/2009 10:19:14 AM Well said Tim! So much of Australian immigration policy can be seen as the result of the i.....
» 13/05/2009 5:14:33 PM "Researchers at the German Aerospace Center have estimated that 16,000 square kilomet.....
» 5/05/2009 2:16:19 PM Futurist Gerald Celente has been predicting the dissolution of the USA into separate regio.....
» 1/05/2009 9:59:29 AM Any investments in infrastucture must be made within the context of physical reality. The .....
» 28/04/2009 3:30:49 PM My, my. The growthist's above exude self-righteousness as they declare that all has been f.....
» 27/04/2009 11:28:14 AM Here is Kanck's press release - judge for yourself: http://www.population.org.au/index.ph.....
» 27/04/2009 10:09:57 AM Tragically the author of this article has fallen victim to the beat-up on Sandra Kanck pro.....
» 22/04/2009 10:38:31 AM The problem with the "consumption in the developed world is the main problem argument.....
» 16/04/2009 10:40:17 AM (continued from previous post) “ a glance at temperature records since the turn of the ce.....
» 16/04/2009 10:39:37 AM Actually, not a bad essay, even if it dismisses population concerns. However, it is easy t.....
» 8/04/2009 2:51:12 PM The ACF is famous for hiding from the population debate. The urban growthists (whether Cox.....
» 7/04/2009 10:14:18 AM Why is all the talk about supply-side solutions? What about demand? If you stop pumping up.....
» 6/04/2009 11:10:37 AM Sorry, the link for Australia's food exports being less than commonly believed should have.....
» 6/04/2009 11:05:33 AM "Fertility" (fecundity) may be the long term driver of population size but we ca.....
» 13/03/2009 9:44:41 AM Geoff, I loved your book "Economia" and this essay is a corker too!.....
» 5/03/2009 8:39:55 AM Energy efficiency can only help if the reserve capacity thereby gained is not used for fur.....
» 4/03/2009 11:23:40 AM OzAndy and Forrest Gumpp, You assume that it is possible to expand renewable forms of ele.....
» 3/03/2009 9:59:29 AM A silly article that posits that, just because renewable sources of electricity exist, the.....
» 9/01/2009 9:29:04 AM Science as we understand it today is not about "triumphing over nature". Rather,.....
» 12/12/2008 9:33:51 AM Unfortunately this article perpetuates the misconception that ideas alone are enough to gr.....
» 20/11/2008 11:40:12 AM Nobody should be moving to the Kimberly. It is time for man's destructive exploitation of .....
» 18/11/2008 11:27:20 AM Biofuels are not sustainable where wastes (containing e.g. phosphorous that is becoming li.....
» 12/11/2008 12:13:04 PM The root cause of our civilization's unsustainability is the very triumphalism promoted in.....
» 6/11/2008 11:23:12 AM A really outstanding article. Congratulations! One point to note for the commentators - a.....
» 31/10/2008 10:27:35 AM The interesting thing about people who study politics, especially the academics I have met.....
» 14/10/2008 9:36:31 AM The doom merchants are correct. The US is toast and our turn comes next as the property ma.....
» 10/10/2008 9:26:09 AM By 2020 Australia's CO2 production should be at least 20% down if not more due to our own .....
» 11/09/2008 11:37:35 AM Colinsett makes a very good point that human population expands to the limits of food avai.....
» 10/09/2008 10:13:54 AM What an amazing world where a financial structure such as the proposed AussieMac can be de.....
» 3/09/2008 2:05:31 PM Within 12 years (2020) Australia’s oil production will be a fraction of that today and the.....
» 1/09/2008 12:56:40 PM Marohasy redefines "wilderness" out of existence......
» 4/07/2008 9:48:19 AM I doubt that cars, of any kind, have any long term future. Some trucks maybe. The rest - g.....
» 25/06/2008 11:37:18 AM WOW BN, that's some powerful logic there. Lets look at it: " The "Sweden does i.....
» 25/06/2008 10:19:40 AM I have not followed the CSIRO funding follies closely enough to know one way or the other .....
» 25/06/2008 10:05:36 AM This article strikes me as pretty silly. I repeats a number of points we have heard before.....
» 21/06/2008 7:38:58 PM ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph programme on 20 June had an interview about approachin.....
» 20/06/2008 11:06:36 AM Max, your article is rendered worthless by its multitude of inaccuracies and untrue statem.....
» 19/06/2008 11:54:32 AM Bernie, You're as out of touch as the government you criticise in terms of the real measur.....
» 16/06/2008 10:43:35 AM Sorry to interrupt your daydreaming Mick but in case you hadn't noticed down here on plane.....
» 12/06/2008 3:39:06 PM Thanks Bugsy - interesting! However, it does not really alter the point of my argument. In.....
» 12/06/2008 1:20:44 PM There is no black and white in this matter but the more you look into the topic the dodgie.....
» 11/06/2008 10:06:19 AM Another "We have to do..." article that pretends that the world food shortage is.....
» 10/06/2008 9:44:54 AM Oil supply is now decreasing and phosphate resources are approximagtely 75% depleted. Thes.....
» 19/05/2008 11:12:59 AM Note: Apologies to James Hanson - I was tripped up by the mistaken author link. So just wh.....
» 19/05/2008 10:06:57 AM Here's a thought - let's actually build the FINAL waste repository BEFORE we build a nucle.....
» 12/05/2008 3:19:05 PM As a fully paid-up member of the Greens I can say that I am very disappointed by the leade.....
» 12/05/2008 11:50:23 AM There is a lot to agree with here but some of it is a little extreme. What is not commonl.....
» 1/05/2008 10:41:27 AM Reading this description I am glad that I did not apply to attend (although I very likely .....
» 24/04/2008 12:57:36 PM Great article. I "want" lots of things but I will settle for a few smells if it .....
» 18/04/2008 9:38:45 AM Henry, you phrased it incorrectly. You wrote: "3. Free up Australia's migration syst.....
» 25/03/2008 9:44:21 AM Sounds like Burke is deep in the pocket of the agriculture multinationals. One wonders who.....
» 4/03/2008 10:06:34 AM You did not mention the need to stop population growth, without which all other actions to.....
» 28/02/2008 10:38:41 AM "Dr Nicholas Gruen is ... Chairman of Peach Discount Mortgage Broking". Who woul.....
» 25/02/2008 11:07:07 AM Hi Alan, Good to see an article recognising the economic consequences of reducing CO2 pro.....
» 7/02/2008 12:22:55 PM Reducing waste is the right thing to do UNLESS you do not stop population and consumption .....
» 25/01/2008 9:25:34 AM It's too late to save the USA. Why waste money trying? The real currency of the world is .....
» 24/01/2008 9:12:04 AM Dear Ken, I hope you have not been watching the ABC since October. For me, I watch nothin.....
» 14/01/2008 9:43:38 AM Economics has become subject to such hyperbole that economic reporting is now even less va.....
» 11/01/2008 9:20:53 AM If you stop population growth then there is no housing crisis or housing affordability cri.....
» 26/11/2007 9:30:46 AM The current economic prosperity of most Australians is a debt-fuelled sham. The author doe.....
» 12/11/2007 8:53:56 AM To read about how an attack on Iran will be a catastrophe for the US 5th Fleet and will le.....
» 5/11/2007 9:10:13 AM No mention of how oil decline will make healthcare as we know it just a pleasant memory. B.....
» 1/11/2007 11:13:02 AM Why so much loathing Perseus? Are you someone who abhors restraint? Sheila is arguing for .....
» 26/10/2007 10:30:00 AM If you are looking for where future leadership lies then the simplest thing to do is to lo.....
» 22/10/2007 10:52:06 AM I loved the comment on ABC Radio National's AM programme today on inflation figures - food.....
» 22/10/2007 10:30:41 AM Calling Planet Natasha! Get real Natasha. Have you not heard of Peak Oil? As a mother of .....
» 22/10/2007 1:15:31 AM "The overwhelming percentage of commutes will continue to be by private transport for.....
» 19/10/2007 4:35:02 PM The bidding war has already begun in the developing world with some African and poorer Asi.....
» 19/10/2007 9:53:50 AM Great article! Now we just need to have the politicians read it. Interesting how peak oil .....
» 28/09/2007 9:10:41 AM There was a report prepared for the Pentagon a while back that said that climate change co.....
» 27/09/2007 10:15:21 AM Iran certainly has many faults and political life there may be brutal. There are many grou.....
» 27/09/2007 10:03:46 AM Iran probably does want the bomb as a protection against aggression. However, it definitel.....
» 26/08/2007 10:23:52 PM ecorin, Stop taking the testosterone shots. Have a Bex and good lie down instead! Your ma.....
» 23/08/2007 11:30:16 AM john frum, All that development requires ENERGY. You would have to have been on holiday o.....
» 23/08/2007 9:52:59 AM The only real solution to housing affordability that is environmentally sustainable is to .....
» 23/08/2007 9:49:05 AM "...an Australian refusal to supply uranium to India using the NPT alibi after Canber.....
» 22/08/2007 6:42:08 PM Hi Mariah, Everything you eat, including phosphate, that does not accumulate in your body.....
» 21/08/2007 11:13:21 AM Rather than wasting time trying to use gene modification to improve crop yields, we need t.....
» 16/08/2007 12:03:37 PM "North Korea is another terrific example of a nation signing the NPT, but merrily goi.....
» 10/08/2007 11:28:05 AM Nice to see Alzo in top form railing against anything that even hints of restraint! On a .....
» 6/08/2007 10:09:55 AM Very well said Michael! And HealthWatcher, I agree that it is too late to avoid a crash, t.....
» 2/08/2007 10:11:09 AM The problem with the "march of immigration and urbanisation" is that peak oil wi.....
» 20/07/2007 11:04:24 AM What it means is that, if we had half a brain, we would undertake to massively reduce foss.....
» 20/07/2007 10:13:17 AM David Rutledge, Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech (one o.....
» 13/07/2007 3:02:48 PM OK PaulL, What was THE defining reason for going to war then? Your devoted goldfish, Mi.....
» 12/07/2007 2:39:57 PM See the following site for maps of Iraq's oil fields and details of "foreign suitors&.....
» 12/07/2007 2:29:11 PM From Cheney's speech to the London Institute of Petroleum in 1999 when he was chairman of .....
» 6/07/2007 10:10:03 AM The housing market is only the way it is because interest rates are too low leading to inf.....
» 4/07/2007 10:21:03 AM Howard has already given the game away with his comment on compensating the aboriginals fo.....
» 3/07/2007 3:29:15 PM DavoP, Just read the links I gave. THEN use your keyboard. Michael.....
» 3/07/2007 3:25:40 PM What floors me about comments such as those from Agronomist is the arrogance that assumes .....
» 3/07/2007 10:20:48 AM Last year: Australia's growth rate = 4% Australias's growth in money supply = 14% i.e. Pu.....
» 2/07/2007 11:48:23 PM Has anyone read the news article published in Science about spreading resistance to glypho.....
» 2/07/2007 11:58:40 AM I am a geneticist and have read the Gene Technology Act 2000. I serve on an Institutional .....
» 28/06/2007 9:50:08 AM Peter, Your superficial understanding of energy, peak oil and the way the world economy w.....
» 27/06/2007 10:24:54 AM The Americans have no intention of leaving. Even if they withdraw to their three giant air.....
» 27/06/2007 10:03:47 AM In her outstanding article, "Peak Oil and the Preservation of Knowledge", ( http.....
» 26/06/2007 11:10:56 AM I suspect that some of Howard's enthusiasm for taking drastic control over aboriginal terr.....
» 23/06/2007 2:17:08 PM Thanks for those comments Shaunus4, I imagine you have already seen David Rutledge’s pres.....
» 21/06/2007 11:32:02 AM Hi Healthwatcher, I am not preempting failure - just trying to scrape off the excess hype.....
» 21/06/2007 10:46:28 AM Let's be clear about what Venter has done. He has not assembled a new life form from indiv.....
» 20/06/2007 11:04:50 AM Hi Ludwig, Have you seen Cheney's 1999 speech to the London Institute of Petroleum where .....
» 19/06/2007 9:49:11 AM The problem with gathering political action behind doing something about climate change is.....
» 19/06/2007 12:21:48 AM Thanks John Busby for showing that the Olympic Dam expansion will never happen. If uranium.....
» 12/06/2007 10:53:49 AM "Money measures the scope of dreams, but only energy can fulfil them." Beautifu.....
» 11/06/2007 2:50:50 PM Arjay, If the world's average temperature rises by "a few degrees" you (or your.....
» 11/06/2007 2:48:12 PM Sorry, Don't agree about the 20 year grace period. The world is already in a state of ove.....
» 8/06/2007 11:19:38 AM And what a joke nuclear power is! Here is a report from a group in Oxford saying that ther.....
» 8/06/2007 9:55:57 AM Malcolm, Existential threats, such as climate change, can require actions that are not in.....
» 7/06/2007 10:01:15 AM Dear Shaunus4, I am still a little confused about this. Somewhere, someone’s figures are .....
» 7/06/2007 1:41:44 AM Dear Shaunnus, Are you sure about this argument? I would have thought that the value of u.....
» 6/06/2007 9:36:56 AM Lots of diatribe but not much "Facts". Quoting the Tora or Old Testament as hist.....
» 5/06/2007 5:46:19 PM Hi Reynard, You need to understand that the exploitation of an energy resource (in contra.....
» 5/06/2007 11:41:46 AM Last year just THE INCREASE IN ENERGY USE ALONE was five times the total wind energy capac.....
» 5/06/2007 10:31:20 AM At the moment, reserve banks around the world are all allowing massive money supply increa.....
» 4/06/2007 10:29:43 AM Regarding the pharmaceutical companies being all powerful, it looks as though the Australi.....
» 1/06/2007 4:08:03 PM It is a measure of the success of vaccines in promoting human health (reducing infectious .....
» 1/06/2007 10:29:39 AM My wife works as a registrar in gynaecology at a public hospital and every evening over di.....
» 30/05/2007 10:58:03 AM Japan's financial crisis began with a banking collapse after a phenomenal property bubble .....
» 28/05/2007 4:28:02 PM Hear, hear! Geoff Davies' "Economia" is a ripper read and really shows the non-e.....
» 28/05/2007 10:27:42 AM Good analogy with WWII since it is that level of commitment that is required to deal with .....
» 25/05/2007 9:49:05 AM (comment continued from previous post) _____________ A related problem with your idea is .....
» 25/05/2007 9:44:22 AM Hankering after higher broadband speeds is irrelevant. Let me repost an earlier comment ma.....
» 22/05/2007 5:35:42 PM Hi Perseus, Peter JH and others, Perseus, your substitutionist economic argument against .....
» 21/05/2007 12:56:25 PM Laugh if off if you wish alzo but, rather than trying to discredit the source, look at the.....
» 21/05/2007 10:20:15 AM Taz, Obviously you have not read any of Heinberg's books. He is probably the world's best.....
» 18/05/2007 10:11:36 AM As a developmental geneticist, I find the entire debate over reproductive technology (incl.....
» 17/05/2007 11:39:18 AM Yes I see. Sorry - a crappy html version of this document is available at: http://tinyurl......
» 16/05/2007 11:39:47 AM (comment continued from previous post) _____________ A related problem with your idea is .....
» 16/05/2007 11:37:11 AM Hi Peter, I will need to split up this comment into two posts because of length: ________.....
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