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» 18/12/2022 5:53:20 PM Well said Stephen. There's no democracy in this particular decision making. The big end of.....
» 13/07/2020 7:59:10 AM Well said Yuyutsu though, as one who did control my reproduction, I would prefer to be cla.....
» 12/07/2020 5:17:05 PM Hear hear Divergence. mhaze does not take into account climate change which has had locali.....
» 11/07/2020 5:37:10 PM Yes, thanks Divergence. Overpopulation is not mandatory. We can get our population back in.....
» 11/07/2020 2:28:52 PM Sorry mhaze, it is you that is wrong about food. Please note the last month's report by th.....
» 10/07/2020 5:41:10 PM Thank heavens for Divergence who is a very sensible contributor. Malthus was not to see th.....
» 5/03/2020 2:11:47 PM I thought this was an excellent article and highly thought-provoking. It seems we are &quo.....
» 6/01/2020 2:11:35 PM Yes, more anthropologists and fewer economists please! Let's have more ecologists too, bec.....
» 16/10/2018 1:24:49 PM The most telling aspect of this article is the table which shows countries with higher gro.....
» 8/09/2018 9:43:31 PM Eric You got the last paragraph right but you wasted a lot of time getting there. The arg.....
» 16/06/2018 11:36:01 AM This really is a load of rubbish. Yes, the trend is for global cooling were it not for gre.....
» 8/05/2017 4:16:46 PM The author is quite right - fracking is a health and environmental hazard. Conventional ga.....
» 7/11/2016 7:58:04 AM This is a hymn to urban sprawl with no consideration of the environmental effects. We do n.....
» 9/02/2016 12:44:52 PM JBower They haven't said "This is the hottest year ever" for the past ten years .....
» 9/02/2016 11:08:36 AM Sorry runner, what "failed projections"? I've been following the issue for three.....
» 9/02/2016 10:16:21 AM ttbm - You can't do the adaptation without the underpinning climate research. Peter Stot.....
» 9/02/2016 9:23:21 AM Words fail me about these cuts and Aitkin's response so I will quote from others better qu.....
» 23/01/2016 9:02:09 AM I'm sure it is comforting to Bob Carter's family that he still had supporters as found in .....
» 27/09/2015 8:29:54 AM Peter Lang The accusations you make of me should be turned around and applied to you. L.....
» 26/09/2015 3:24:44 PM Dear Peter Lang Atolls rise with sea-levels but not at the current pace, or certainly not.....
» 26/09/2015 1:39:17 PM Dear Peter Lang Sea-levels are rising and Kiribati and other atolls are low-lying. We can.....
» 26/09/2015 12:43:32 PM Thanks Peter McCloy for a very sound article. Population growth does indeed seem to be at .....
» 22/09/2014 12:43:01 PM Yes, population is a security issue although perhaps the author doesn't stress enough the .....
» 8/08/2014 12:16:25 PM Climate change is the greatest challenge we face - created and exacerbated by population g.....
» 4/08/2014 10:58:15 AM Malcolm 'Paddy' King You dismiss the cogent arguments that have been put to you by Diverg.....
» 25/07/2014 10:34:13 AM Yes, an excellent piece thanks Valerie. The driving force behind higher prices, of course,.....
» 9/04/2014 9:44:11 AM Thanks Matthew S, and we haven't even got to whether other species are doing better or wor.....
» 6/04/2014 6:34:40 PM Malcolm 'Paddy" King I know who funds SPA and it's the members. Just had the AGM and.....
» 4/04/2014 9:39:57 AM Andras As Shockadelic said: People like you accuse others of what you yourselves are doin.....
» 3/04/2014 9:06:27 AM Malcolm 'Paddy' King SPA didn't organise that one, sorry to disappoint. But I hope it mak.....
» 1/04/2014 8:53:45 AM You're sliding into the same territory as Malcolm King, Andras, namely casting aspersions .....
» 30/03/2014 10:45:44 AM Ignoring the usual play-the-man-and-not-the-ball stuff from Paddy King, and reverting to A.....
» 11/03/2014 3:52:57 PM Actually I do have something to add. We who are concerned about overpopulation do repeat s.....
» 11/03/2014 3:31:45 PM Given Michael Lardelli has eloquently written about Malcolm King already I have little to .....
» 19/02/2014 5:44:08 AM Bravo Sue and MAPW! Terrific progress. Nuclear weapons have no place in the 21st century a.....
» 29/11/2013 6:29:37 AM It is quite shocking how ill prepared Austraia is for coming oil decline. Our economy is s.....
» 8/11/2013 11:05:41 AM Pericles Divergence backs up virtually every so-called "assertion" with scientif.....
» 8/11/2013 11:00:33 AM Rhian My position on population growth is firmly embedded in science, not ideology. I firs.....
» 7/11/2013 9:20:46 AM It frustrates me that this population debate has become ideological. Really, it comes down.....
» 6/11/2013 12:19:41 PM Excellent article though I agree with Ludwig and Rhosty too. I happen to be more pessimist.....
» 30/10/2013 4:53:06 PM Dear Cohenite Yes, it's impossible to communicate with you because you're not up to date .....
» 30/10/2013 8:06:48 AM Dear Cohenite Please don't waste our time. Read the literature including the latest IPCC .....
» 28/10/2013 9:34:32 AM Malcolm/Paddy King Sorry to disappoint you but SPA just organised the highly successful F.....
» 27/10/2013 4:05:52 PM Yes Malcolm. Reveal who your clients are. Property developers? Migration agents? Real esta.....
» 26/10/2013 8:17:08 AM Dear Hasbeen As always, playing the man and not the ball. I can assure you John Coulter r.....
» 26/10/2013 7:25:23 AM Malcolm India got that food in exchange for adopting some of the new strains of rice and w.....
» 25/10/2013 10:51:34 AM Loudmouth It would be a help if we could address how to get to a genuinely sustainable po.....
» 25/10/2013 10:02:46 AM Excellent article John. It attracted the usual ratbags who cherry pick the data to their h.....
» 23/10/2013 8:58:28 PM Dear Joe/Loudmouth India can't develop along the Western model because we are fast approa.....
» 20/10/2013 10:26:41 AM The latest updates on Limits to Growth from the Club of Rome show that we are on track for.....
» 17/10/2013 10:54:40 AM (continued from previous post) 4) "When ever Mark O'Connor and others started using.....
» 17/10/2013 10:43:08 AM Malcolm Let's deal with each point in your latest rant, shall we? 1) "The whole ant.....
» 16/10/2013 10:40:05 AM ...and finally Malcolm... Population is certainly one of the triumvirate of the three P's.....
» 16/10/2013 10:32:57 AM and, oh! Malcolm, by the way... Australia does not have a "small" population. O.....
» 16/10/2013 10:07:12 AM Malcolm (continued)... You sure got in a muddle over statistics, didn't you? How many peo.....
» 16/10/2013 9:48:55 AM Malcolm Who pays you to write this rubbish? People do increase carbon emissions - they b.....
» 15/10/2013 3:00:23 PM Mikk If you want internet connection then you want the minerals that make it happen, not .....
» 15/10/2013 8:15:09 AM The party's over alright. And the implications for food security are huge. If Michaux is r.....
» 2/09/2013 4:17:51 PM Great article John. I've just been at the National Press Club listening to Tony Abbott &qu.....
» 26/08/2013 12:17:08 PM Malcolm King is at it again, casting aspersions on those who seek an ecologically sustaina.....
» 21/08/2013 11:34:29 AM Why do we have unaffordable housing and homelessness? Because population growth is too hig.....
» 12/08/2013 5:02:16 PM Marilyn Jenny read The Population Bomb after her only biological child was born and there.....
» 10/07/2013 9:37:29 PM Cherful You need to check out the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures if you do.....
» 4/07/2013 4:36:54 PM as I was saying... The craziness of those who protest against groups such as FAIR and Soc.....
» 4/07/2013 4:35:50 PM Malcolm You got it wrong about Madeline Weld, and although you're retracting that bit, yo.....
» 12/03/2013 10:20:17 AM Excellent article Lyn and good analogies with the Holocaust. Don't be put off by all these.....
» 2/02/2013 3:03:06 PM I'm with Geoff of Perth. The US situation should be a warning to all those other countries.....
» 25/01/2013 2:33:04 PM This article is totally offensive and driven by pure ideology. It's offensive causing us '.....
» 22/01/2013 1:33:43 PM Well said Robert LePage, especially this sentence: "Denialism is about tactics that a.....
» 22/01/2013 8:08:51 AM How about some honesty Jon J? Last year was the hottest ever in the continental US. We bro.....
» 18/01/2013 8:40:09 PM Good question Rhian and the answer lies in lower fertility. Japan, China, South Korea, Tai.....
» 15/08/2012 9:54:49 AM I am generally supportive of Angus Houston's asylum seeker review committee recommending a.....
» 9/08/2012 8:17:01 AM Curmudgeon You and your fellow travellers on this forum are not sceptics; you're deniers. .....
» 8/08/2012 6:28:13 PM Leo Lane Michael Mann has been exonerated at least five times by different inquiries into .....
» 8/08/2012 3:44:28 PM Snowman I thought someone would say something like that. You denialists have a real indust.....
» 8/08/2012 1:34:42 PM I also agree with JohnBennetts. It is a truly vile article and shame, OLO, shame for publi.....
» 8/08/2012 1:08:54 PM I was touched by your post gypsy. Good on you for overcoming all those earlier handicaps a.....
» 6/08/2012 8:17:30 AM A member of my family was homeless in Sydney for a few weeks last year, afflicted by menta.....
» 3/08/2012 8:34:12 AM It's not really a mystery why TFRs have dropped in Muslim countries - there is no ideologi.....
» 26/07/2012 4:43:46 PM Curmudgeon I think Julian is more interested in the welfare of a sizeable proportion of th.....
» 26/07/2012 8:08:57 AM I share your concern Julian. We may be hitting a global food crisis soon, not helped by th.....
» 6/07/2012 9:18:56 AM Of course housing affordability is an issue and must be addressed, but not at the expense .....
» 2/07/2012 11:06:16 AM spindoc Normally I would be impressed by the figure of 66% opposing the carbon tax but in.....
» 2/07/2012 9:54:37 AM Alfred Good question but I believe the main rationale is to get the utilities to switch to.....
» 2/07/2012 9:40:17 AM Peter Lang A somewhat confused post of yours, perhaps. The issue of taxing carbon as a mea.....
» 2/07/2012 8:52:30 AM Important article thanks Tom though I agree with Taswegian and Ludwig that the crisis will.....
» 22/06/2012 2:34:01 PM Cheryl Boy, you're sure raising the bar on sheer nastiness but you've already achieved gre.....
» 22/06/2012 2:16:53 PM Dear Joe/Loudmouth Well, it's an interesting idea and maybe better than everyone dying a s.....
» 22/06/2012 11:02:19 AM Dear runner You have to do better than that, sorry. The issue is serious and you have to d.....
» 22/06/2012 10:16:40 AM An excellent analogy Ian. Indeed, population should be there as one of the big four issues.....
» 20/06/2012 7:44:51 PM Halduell Love that analogy 'Carrying on like pork chops' i.e. the porkphobic Israelis and .....
» 20/06/2012 10:22:51 AM I think it's probably time that Christians (followers of Christ) ditched the Old Testament.....
» 14/06/2012 10:16:08 AM The sensible comment by devid f on population was refreshing after the ludicrously paranoi.....
» 4/06/2012 8:34:46 AM A good article but disheartening all the same. By the time we convince all the conservativ.....
» 1/06/2012 1:48:26 PM J.A.M. I said the "all we need to do is redistribute the food" is becoming a fac.....
» 1/06/2012 11:08:58 AM A lovely compassionate article - thanks Valerie. Probably the most valid point is that it .....
» 1/06/2012 10:57:32 AM With all due respects J.A.M., the argument about how food is distributed is becoming a bit.....
» 30/05/2012 9:28:49 AM Here's a nice complementary article in the Age today: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/dr.....
» 30/05/2012 9:16:09 AM Maintain your rage, Mr Parker, the country needs you! When petrol prices inevitably rise (.....
» 28/05/2012 4:19:15 PM Boylesy You and otherscan find that petition at http://www.population.org.au/petition.....
» 23/05/2012 9:38:59 AM Excellent article thanks William and likewise the posts from Ludwig and VivKay. We need to.....
» 18/05/2012 4:53:48 PM That's it KAEP, isn't it, the more people (be they immigrants or native-born); the greater.....
» 17/05/2012 12:31:05 PM The Sahara Desert has a lot of room but it only supports two million people. Why? Lack of .....
» 15/05/2012 6:19:48 PM I look forward to reading Kjell's book - thanks for 'tanslating' Michael. I hope he addres.....
» 14/05/2012 12:05:47 PM My father was a Uniting church minister and used to marry heterosexual couples in our chur.....
» 13/05/2012 12:02:35 PM What concerns me about uncoventional oil and gas are the high environmental costs. We have.....
» 10/05/2012 12:01:00 PM Great article Jo - well said. I don't have the details but I hope family planning hasn't b.....
» 3/05/2012 2:37:43 PM Dear Cohenite Start by reading Naomi Oreske's article and her reference to 928 papers: htt.....
» 3/05/2012 2:23:24 PM Martin N Let's hope there are no earthquakes and tsunamis to put at risk the nuclear react.....
» 2/05/2012 9:52:57 PM Dear Hasbeen No problems? Start by reading the post by PEST. Then move on to some climate .....
» 2/05/2012 11:30:12 AM Thanks Bazz Yes, I've seen other reports that unconventional will not make up for the decl.....
» 2/05/2012 8:38:23 AM Hasbeen Some of us out here would actually like to solve the problems confronting us witho.....
» 1/05/2012 9:53:04 PM Abiotic oil Cohenite? Where's the evidence? It's an unsupported theory. Shale gas is a gas.....
» 1/05/2012 1:54:57 PM Curmudgeon If we accept that 'peak oil' is 'peak conventional oil' then it's a reality. Pe.....
» 30/04/2012 7:51:23 PM Not 'Cheers!' Rhostry, 'Glooms!' as the original author of this article is wont to say........
» 30/04/2012 2:17:45 PM Curmudgeon has raised an interesting point about 'deep ocean oil finds', namely, the ultra.....
» 30/04/2012 1:25:17 PM "... the only way to live happily is to crystallise your life down to its essence, an.....
» 30/04/2012 11:30:27 AM We're all agreed that oil is a finite resource and at some point we'll run out of it, or a.....
» 20/04/2012 10:24:16 AM Ludwig You're spot on in your last paragraph. The more people, the more restrictions. And .....
» 19/04/2012 2:55:54 PM I think multiculturalism is only a lovely thing when its excesses are repudiated, not leas.....
» 17/04/2012 5:31:16 PM Pericles I don't want Australia to become undeveloped, just to de-develop to some degree .....
» 17/04/2012 12:31:24 PM While the author is clearly an expert on Pakistan and water, he ignores the wider issues o.....
» 17/04/2012 12:08:29 PM Pericles I differ from Juche in that I don't believe that man is master of everything. Na.....
» 16/04/2012 2:09:37 PM Pericles No, not empty streets but what we want are enough humans living happily with the.....
» 16/04/2012 12:19:43 PM Cheryl and Pericles Glad you read my 'South Africa' as 'South Australia' because that is i.....
» 16/04/2012 9:53:17 AM Cheryl The same principles that apply in Nigeria, also apply in South Africa. In the end i.....
» 16/04/2012 9:14:15 AM Cheryl This is not about South Australia, but try this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/.....
» 12/04/2012 5:43:12 PM Pericles You wonder why economies of scale don't work with more people and electricity pri.....
» 12/04/2012 5:36:06 PM I've been wondering how long it would be for those who can offer nothing positive to the d.....
» 12/04/2012 12:35:17 PM Cronin, I suspect the carbon tax WILL change behaviour though it is strange that the prior.....
» 12/04/2012 9:13:08 AM Yep, great article. Time that all those advocating population growth realised there is a c.....
» 11/04/2012 5:23:18 PM Great article thanks Michael. It would be nice to think that techno-optimists like Rhostry.....
» 5/04/2012 12:53:53 PM Excellent but worrying article. Long gone are the days when you left school, maybe went to.....
» 23/03/2012 8:52:51 AM The author must be joking. With such a lousy EROEI and diabolical environmental problems a.....
» 22/03/2012 11:26:05 AM Governments will indeed have to be the ones that ensure the world is fed. Because of decli.....
» 7/03/2012 9:11:51 AM Terrific Alan. The Press Gallery has a lot to answer for on this one and especially the Mu.....
» 5/03/2012 12:22:06 PM This is a timely and important article and deserves wider readership. A lot of us were lul.....
» 5/03/2012 12:08:13 PM Well said Crispin Hull. When all this happened, I was on a committee, largely of Seventh D.....
» 20/02/2012 7:40:03 PM A lovely story, thank you. Yet another reason why the human population has to stop growing.....
» 16/02/2012 12:42:55 PM Hasbeen When you turn all that coal into liquid transport fuel, you can kiss the atmospher.....
» 15/02/2012 3:51:51 PM Hear hear Savvas. Well said. Given that we have to replace infrastructure, on average, eve.....
» 14/02/2012 4:29:29 PM Great article thanks Michael-in-Adelaide. A couple of years ago I was at the annual confer.....
» 8/02/2012 9:38:44 AM Curmudgeon I'm not opposed to fracking per se if it can be done in a non-harmful way but t.....
» 7/02/2012 6:29:15 AM Propane gas sounds good as an alternative to water until you realise that it burns, and bu.....
» 6/02/2012 10:59:13 AM An important article thanks and an issue that the whole community - here in Australia as w.....
» 3/02/2012 9:28:07 AM Herbert, the evidence is out there for climate change and its effects - you just have to r.....
» 12/01/2012 9:36:44 AM Yes, environmentalism should encompass everyone but Liz's enforced lack of consumerism mea.....
» 11/01/2012 9:21:03 AM This article assumes that that demand for meat and eggs will continue its inexorable rise .....
» 9/01/2012 7:58:58 AM Great article thanks. The analogies with Burke and Wills were instructive, particularly Wi.....
» 30/12/2011 5:08:11 PM Alice Thermopolis Sounds like Kevin Anderson is eminently qualified. Clearly if he is Cha.....
» 30/12/2011 4:58:40 PM Oh come on, Frederick Van Dorestien, how much is the fossil fuel lobby paying you to write.....
» 30/12/2011 3:52:58 PM It is beyond belief that you guys are casting doubt on the reality of climate change, or A.....
» 30/12/2011 6:51:32 AM Michael Kile puts all his faith in one climate denier/sceptic (Laframboise) who argues tha.....
» 6/11/2011 4:41:03 AM I don't think there is any room for complacency here. We are indeed beginning to hit limit.....
» 16/09/2011 9:06:36 AM Thanks to the author for bringing up this important issue but he merely skims the surface......
» 15/09/2011 9:13:50 AM Squeers writes: "We should not be palliating individuals, but looking at habitats.&qu.....
» 14/09/2011 8:32:12 AM Bravo Patrick McGorry. I am the mother of a 38 year old son whose mental illness went untr.....
» 6/09/2011 11:37:19 AM Thanks Valerie. Another excellent article and worth reading just for this line, already co.....
» 5/09/2011 5:27:36 PM Sorry Michael, but I think it's do-able though let's start with an expanded intra-country .....
» 2/09/2011 8:22:32 AM The Greens are an admirable party in many respects and their recent stance on peak oil has.....
» 23/08/2011 5:44:45 PM Formersnag You refer to our Prime Minister as Juliar. As a woman I find it offensive. You .....
» 22/08/2011 5:41:31 PM "Dogs barking" indeed Julian... I'm all in favour of democracy and OLO blogs al.....
» 22/08/2011 9:22:32 AM Vanna You're mostly wrong. These nasties were either developed by the military-industrial.....
» 22/08/2011 9:06:15 AM Excellent article thanks Julian. Given that population growth has contributed to species e.....
» 16/08/2011 9:03:51 AM I agree with much of what is written but you cannot absolve the rioters of responsibility......
» 12/08/2011 9:45:31 AM Hasbeen Philip Adams has two faults. One is he supports Kevin Rudd. The other is that he t.....
» 12/08/2011 9:28:32 AM Bravo Valerie. I agree with all of that, especially the music though mercifully there's no.....
» 8/08/2011 9:23:27 AM I was a devoted and active member of the Australian Democrats from 1981 to 1992 when I res.....
» 4/08/2011 5:47:54 PM The decision as to whether to have children or not may no longer be a personal decision be.....
» 3/08/2011 6:24:45 PM I am depressed by the level of misogyny abroad in Australia at the moment, directed primar.....
» 27/07/2011 9:53:07 AM Bravo Valerie. Well said. While I agree with what you've said, I think we have to put this.....
» 16/06/2011 10:01:29 AM Mark is right to highlight the Salt retraction on this one. But Salt's main problem is tha.....
» 15/06/2011 3:34:06 PM Jo I enjoyed a previous article of yours but this one less so because it implies that only.....
» 15/06/2011 12:25:23 PM Clownfish We can always depend on you to lower the tone of the debate, can't we? Yet again.....
» 10/06/2011 11:49:27 AM Curmudgeon Of course there are complexities but the answer is not to "move on" -.....
» 9/06/2011 12:39:24 PM You deniers never come up with anything new, do you? Just the same old nastiness that cont.....
» 8/06/2011 2:36:08 PM Mark Lawson/Curmudgeon I appreciate you have an ideological opposition to models but, as f.....
» 8/06/2011 2:26:46 PM Saltpetre Unfortunately, we cannot recycle energy thanks to the second law of thermodynami.....
» 8/06/2011 1:53:32 PM Spindoc I really have no idea what you're talking about. Could you be more specific? Are y.....
» 8/06/2011 12:52:44 PM Mark Lawson/Curmudgeon Further to my previous post, I just came upon this:http://www.scien.....
» 8/06/2011 12:07:47 PM Mark Lawson/Curmudgeon You may not have personally received funds from Exxon-Mobil to spro.....
» 8/06/2011 11:38:05 AM Clownfish There's a difference between the adherents of Harold Camping's church and my sup.....
» 7/06/2011 1:25:32 PM Clownfish Yes, I agree some phosphorus can be recycled but at what cost in energy terms? W.....
» 7/06/2011 12:15:55 PM Sorry, but the media do have a lot to answer for. Right now, the builders at my house are .....
» 7/06/2011 11:45:27 AM Clownfish Your assertions aren't holding any water, sorry. Sure, we can recycles phosphoru.....
» 3/06/2011 5:09:51 PM Clownfish. Let's hope you're right - don't mind being proved wrong but I suspect Ehrlich w.....
» 3/06/2011 9:04:48 AM Dear Clownfish Paul Erhlich wrong? Yes on timing - I fear he will be proved right in the e.....
» 2/06/2011 11:54:28 AM Dear Curmudgeon Have you never heard of peak phosphorus? Never heard of falling water tabl.....
» 2/06/2011 10:11:40 AM Rip roarin'remarkable article Julian! But I agree with Livio and Ludwig - we have to deal .....
» 31/05/2011 9:06:32 AM Thanks for all the facts and figures. What is missing from this otherwise interesting arti.....
» 19/05/2011 10:29:48 AM Herbert Stencil Would that you are right about a mere one degree warming with a doubling o.....
» 19/05/2011 9:40:58 AM Herbert Stencil You deny the relationaship between rising CO2 and warming. The Swedish sci.....
» 18/05/2011 12:31:05 PM While I have points of disagreement with the author, nevertheless, he did come up with a v.....
» 4/05/2011 4:17:01 PM runner That was just an irrational rant. You have to do better than that......
» 4/05/2011 3:09:04 PM Sorry Sparkyq, but where is your evidence for your assertion that a carbon tax won't reduc.....
» 4/05/2011 3:02:28 PM Yes, well done Jane. I particularly liked the rubber band metaphor. I share ericc's views.....
» 4/05/2011 2:26:35 PM Ericc Thanks for spelling out the easiest way to beat ageing, namely by steadily increasin.....
» 4/05/2011 2:19:53 PM Curmudgeon Without going into the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in the building and d.....
» 4/05/2011 1:02:15 PM Jay of Melbourne Worsening floods and cyclones are more acts of Man rather than acts of Go.....
» 4/05/2011 12:56:13 PM Thanks Rich2 for imparting some sense and bringing up the issue of the moral argument. The.....
» 4/05/2011 11:51:29 AM Jay of Melbourne I attended many of the Prepartory Meetings for the Copenhagen climate con.....
» 3/05/2011 2:31:09 PM Jay Not quite sure what you're trying to say but I assume you're claiming that humanity wi.....
» 2/05/2011 11:50:16 AM Graham If you're going to write an article like this, start by getting your facts right. .....
» 28/04/2011 8:52:34 AM Bravo Jocelynne. This is of vital importance. And bravo Bolivia for its Mother Eartyh legi.....
» 26/04/2011 8:43:50 AM Dear Mr Windy Let's hope so though it would be good if another word than 'control' could .....
» 22/04/2011 2:52:31 PM Cheryl I'm a woman and it shames me that another woman (you) is so aggressive and offensi.....
» 22/04/2011 9:54:43 AM Dear Demografix So what if emigration is 86,200?! ABS tells us (3101.0) that "residen.....
» 22/04/2011 9:09:47 AM Don't worry Vanna. Australians are breeding only too well. According to the latest figures.....
» 21/04/2011 2:11:53 PM OK Rhian. If you look at the figures for 1995-6 to 2005-6 (and I'm sorry I can't seem to c.....
» 21/04/2011 12:32:32 PM Rhian There is, in fact, no statistical relationship between population growth and GSP pe.....
» 21/04/2011 11:29:20 AM 'Resilience' is certainly the new buzz word - I've already been to one conference on it, o.....
» 21/04/2011 12:02:11 AM Dear Herbert Stencil If you looked at GDP per capita rather than total GDP, you would fin.....
» 20/04/2011 11:33:10 AM Dear runner What you wrote is rubbish really. The climate debate is not lost - the issue .....
» 20/04/2011 10:59:19 AM Cheryl We may live in a capitalist society but that is not to say that any system based on.....
» 20/04/2011 10:23:19 AM My thanks to Dick for a calm and measured article that is spot on. There is no point in fu.....
» 16/04/2011 6:09:59 PM Why don't you play the ball, Hasbeen, instead of the (wo)man? Are you so bereft of genuine.....
» 14/04/2011 12:40:56 PM Amicus Please enlighten us as to what the alternative vehicle fuels are. Algae can appare.....
» 14/04/2011 12:00:21 PM Curmudgeon Yes, there's a lot of US shale gas, not least in the Marcellus deposits. But d.....
» 14/04/2011 11:41:23 AM Dear Leo Lane About the only thing you got right was that there will be a move back to el.....
» 14/04/2011 10:25:30 AM A really informative article thanks. What we HAVE to do is get the climate change and peak.....
» 10/04/2011 2:48:51 PM Poirot It all comes down to the question: What is the greater good? Respect for a culture .....
» 10/04/2011 2:05:07 PM Peter Hume What I mean by equal is having equal rights under the law. Obviously there are .....
» 10/04/2011 12:51:21 PM Peter Hume Affirmative action is the name you're looking for. It is a perfectly justifiab.....
» 10/04/2011 10:51:32 AM Eyejaw. You wrote: "In the context of this discussion I put education of girls/women .....
» 7/04/2011 8:46:32 AM Peter Hume I don't argue that democracy is perfect, just better than the alternatives. Mus.....
» 6/04/2011 3:54:20 PM Peter Hume I was referring to your last paragraph about the US being a rogue state and Aus.....
» 5/04/2011 11:18:58 AM Peter Hume Spare us the nihilism please. As for women becoming sexist, well maybe some hav.....
» 5/04/2011 10:35:21 AM Bravo eyejaw! Feminists here are indeed too preoccupied with tying up the loose ends of th.....
» 5/04/2011 9:55:01 AM JBowyer and Arjay: are you really so blinkered that you ignore the fact that this splendid.....
» 31/03/2011 3:40:59 PM Cheryl As a baby boomer I don't want my kids producing kids like mad - other than one or t.....
» 31/03/2011 8:31:07 AM And the price of all this plastic will go up and up as the price of oil goes up. It is cle.....
» 28/03/2011 8:20:33 AM Bob Carr wasn't responsible for the rapid population growth in Sydney that created all the.....
» 25/03/2011 9:42:59 AM Thanks Ammonite for adding some sense to this whole debate which, on this Forum, has been .....
» 23/03/2011 7:49:27 PM Whatever you lot think of the carbon tax, consumption or capitalism, the reality is we hav.....
» 23/03/2011 11:21:06 AM Dear Amicus It is to its great credit that the ABC does not give a run to the high profile.....
» 23/03/2011 10:05:12 AM The author is absolutely right to say: "Depending on the timeframe, it is possible th.....
» 20/03/2011 4:51:13 PM And here are some more Andrew Glikson peer-reviewed climate papers for MarcH's interest: .....
» 19/03/2011 7:47:00 AM Dear MarcH Peer-reviewed papers on climate change from Andrew Glikson? Let's start with th.....
» 18/03/2011 3:41:10 PM MarcH: You accuse Andrew Glikson of not being a climate scientist. Well, he is and he isn'.....
» 17/03/2011 3:36:10 PM What's with you denialists? Are you afraid of the truth about climate change? Putting your.....
» 17/03/2011 9:42:52 AM Dear Hasbeen. Perhaps the US Navy has its own agenda but who is to say? What is evident is.....
» 17/03/2011 9:29:47 AM rpg asks "What can you do?" Well, the carbon tax is a start and it should be suf.....
» 17/03/2011 8:47:53 AM Dealing with this coming catastrophe of sealevel rise of up to 2 metres this century is no.....
» 10/03/2011 2:04:30 PM Further to stevenlmeyer's questions to the author about what he actually means by multicul.....
» 22/02/2011 8:58:37 AM Oh, how wonderful that someone has stood up against Bogan spelling of good names! Were I d.....
» 17/02/2011 12:17:34 PM I agree with colinsett - the fact that we're ageing should not be an excuse for ever more .....
» 15/02/2011 7:23:51 AM Dear Curmudgeon (how aptly named!) and Pericles Diamond was not the first to discuss the .....
» 14/02/2011 8:59:54 AM The Easter Island analogy is excellent. We're certainly in the business of chopping down t.....
» 11/02/2011 9:11:10 AM Bravo Andrew Glikson for providing the facts about global warming in the face of 'obdurate.....
» 2/02/2011 10:52:45 AM The author is on the right track. Egypt is committing demographic suicide with its two per.....
» 24/01/2011 7:13:19 PM By the way, whoever asked why the 1974 floods were bigger than the 2011 one, it is now rec.....
» 20/01/2011 6:53:54 PM A genuine thanks to you, Bonmot, for persisting with the Wonderland crowd... It's people .....
» 19/01/2011 10:26:46 AM Well said Val. We do need to rethink a whole lot of things such as where and how we build .....
» 17/01/2011 4:07:52 PM Dear Australis. I understand that sea temperatures in the north eastern Indian Ocean near .....
» 17/01/2011 3:46:20 PM Dear Leo Lane You ask for evidence of anthropogenic climate change. First there was Arrhen.....
» 17/01/2011 9:25:05 AM For Cliff Ollier to quote Monkton's response to Steketee was disingenuous given Steketee h.....
» 15/01/2011 3:21:30 PM Thanks Keith for an informative article though I would have liked you to have been a bit m.....
» 13/01/2011 9:06:28 PM Babette Francis is an anachronism. We had this argument from her decades ago and all that'.....
» 30/12/2010 8:57:29 AM I agree with Jim McD's last few points - the problem can be summed up as a "bugger th.....
» 23/12/2010 9:28:19 AM Yes, well done Valerie. We all need to recycle our ornaments and Christmas paper as our mo.....
» 14/12/2010 4:49:07 PM Valerie is hardly arguing for socialism when she argues that no-one should earn more than .....
» 9/12/2010 8:07:43 PM Runner says "Australia has heaps of resources and space". Well, you're right on .....
» 8/12/2010 10:08:53 PM Bravo John le Mesurier. Terrific stuff. We don't need this extra population, goodness know.....
» 26/11/2010 3:27:44 PM Squeers may be right to some extent so, OK, we change the economic system away from capita.....
» 14/11/2010 5:40:44 PM I think the issue of putting a price on ecosystem services or natural capital is very wort.....
» 2/11/2010 12:41:33 PM Dear Hasbeen I forgot to update my thumbnail resume. I was in Washington for three popula.....
» 27/10/2010 10:20:42 AM Like PeterGM, I think we'll need the internet more than we'll need roads in the future. Ho.....
» 19/10/2010 2:29:36 PM I wish I had read this article or something like it in school. Survival of the fittest the.....
» 13/10/2010 8:08:29 AM It would be nice if abortion were not a necessity, but in some cases, it is, because contr.....
» 8/10/2010 7:23:18 AM Further to what Banjo wrote, I would like to promote the concept of multiracialism rather .....
» 28/09/2010 6:58:18 PM Well done Syd. You're mostly right though gas and coal peaks will come a lot earlier than .....
» 27/09/2010 3:04:37 PM All this is very good and true and I admire the author's commitment to the MDGs. But on th.....
» 22/09/2010 12:46:43 PM Great article John, albeit depressing. Glad to see someone making the connections between .....
» 31/08/2010 8:52:52 AM Multiculturalism is a side issue from the issue of population numbers. Multiculturalism ma.....
» 31/08/2010 8:44:11 AM It is no surprise to find Andrew Whitby is a student of economics, that wretched anti-scie.....
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