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23.01.2022 Turner said the ‘absolutely immense changes’ required to deliver a sustainable future were just ‘too hard for the vast majority of people to contemplate’. ‘You’d have to halve the birth rate, you’d have to have net zero immigration, you’d have to go totally renewable energy and double efficiencies in every sector of the economy, and the really key thing is you’d have to reduce the working week over time so that it would become half of what it is,’ said Turner. ‘But that wo...uld also mean that people wouldn’t have the same level of income and it goes hand in hand with reducing household consumption by half. And unless you do all of those things, you don’t achieve a steady state, sustainable future, and if you leave some things out you’ve got to go even harder at the others.’ Turner believes it would be possible to provide for everyone’s needs in a sustainable way but we would have to live a 1950s or 1960s-style lifestyle with limits such as one car and TV per household. We wouldn’t be living in caves and we’d still have technology but the rate of change would be a lot slower. ‘I think if we all manage to live a simpler and arguably more fulfilling life then it would be possible still with some technological advances to have a sustainable future, but it would seem that it’s more likely that we are headed towards or perhaps on the cusp of a sort of global collapse,’ Turner told Voice of Action. Turner said he fears that the public at large won’t take the problem seriously enough and demand change until they’re ‘actually losing their jobs or losing their life or seeing their children directly suffer’. https://voiceofaction.org/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-/

22.01.2022 https://populationmatters.org//its-time-end-harmful-popula

21.01.2022 In this talk at a recent Economic Reform Australia event Philip Lawn makes a very clear and cogent argument as to the importance of population in addressing ecological sustainability. Watch the first video from about 28:33 onwards. Then go onto the second video to see the full development of his argument. https://youtu.be/yV8cYzzhrig... https://youtu.be/LiCSdJ991kU

19.01.2022 An absolutely brilliant article. Written from the US perspective, but equally applicable to Australia and other high immigration developed countries. Meanwhile, members of the open-borders Left may try to convince themselves that they are adopting a radical position. But in practice they are just replacing the pursuit of economic equality with the politics of big business, masquerading as a virtuous identitarianism. America, still one of the richest countries in the world,... should be able to provide not just full employment but a living wage for all of its people, including in jobs which open borders advocates claim ‘Americans won’t do’. Employers who exploit migrants for cheap labor illegallyat great risk to the migrants themselvesshould be blamed, not the migrants who are simply doing what people have always done when facing economic adversity. By providing inadvertent cover for the ruling elite’s business interests, the Left risks a significant existential crisis, as more and more ordinary people defect to far-right parties. At this moment of crisis, the stakes are too high to keep getting it wrong. https://americanaffairsjournal.org//the-left-case-against/

17.01.2022 In a pandemic-constrained world, high density living induced by rapid population growth leads to problems with social distancing. ‘Under coronavirus, we're living in this whole new world where maybe the amount of open space per person is also important,’ she said. https://www.theage.com.au//park-strife-looms-in-suburbs-wh

16.01.2022 Some good news for Australia’s environment and straining infrastructure, for a change. The government has warned net overseas migration could fall by 85 per cent in 2020-21. Westpac found this could mean overall population growth of just 35,940 compared to the previous forecast gain of 239,600. If arrivals fall but departures remain at current levels, Australia's overall net migration could approach a loss of 220,000 people.... Westpac chief economist Bill Evans said without overseas migration including foreign students, states such as NSW, Victoria and South Australia could see their population growth approach zero. Foreign students could permanently head to other countries, hitting not only the domestic education system but the overall economy. https://www.theage.com.au//three-million-australians-cut-s

15.01.2022 Petition to sign https://www.change.org/p/federal-liberal-party-a-reduction-

13.01.2022 Looks like Canberra’s going to lose its bush capital reputation at this rate. https://www.abc.net.au//as-canberras-population-b/12476362

11.01.2022 Reducing non-CO2 GHGs and widespread lifestyle changes have the most short-term impact on emissions. However, ‘by 2100,’ they write, ‘the strongest reductions are found in the renewable electrification and low population scenarios.’ This echoes what the Drawdown Project found, which is that educating girls and making family planning widely available (thus reducing population growth) is the most potent long-term climate policy. https://www.vox.com//climate-change-global-warming-scenari

09.01.2022 https://www.theguardian.com//why-a-generation-is-choosing-

04.01.2022 Policy makers and commentators have spent the past 20 years telling people we have a skills shortage. And then they get surprised when people suddenly question it during a period of mass unemployment. As you can see, it’s the old ‘if you don’t like mass immigration you must be a racist’ story from SBS. This is clearly designed to scare people away from bringing up the topic of immigration by making them fear that they will get publicly shamed as a racist, no matter how reas...onable their argument. Conveniently, there is also no discussion on mass immigration’s fundamental impacts on wages, housing affordability, infrastructure, or the environment, which are the central issues of debate and of primary concern to Australians. Instead of playing the deplorable racist card, SBS should speak to indigenous community leader, Warren Mundine, who has called for a sustainable and non-discriminatory immigration program. https://www.macrobusiness.com.au//sbs-youre-racist-if-you/

03.01.2022 A study of 114 nations found that human population density predicted with 88-percent accuracy the number of endangered birds and mammals as identified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. https://www.biologicaldiversity.org//populatio/extinction/

02.01.2022 From yesterday’s Age.