Jennifer Marohasy

Hi Jennifer,
Now that we have left global warming behind us (almost unanimous agreement that it is the result of human activity or rather over-activity, and that its here to stay unless something is done about it urgently) we can concentrate on the real issue, which is, as I believe over population both at the global [...]

Dr John Reid, a Melbourne neuroscientist, said on ABC radio yesterday, in a piece entitled ‘Apocalypse Now’, that population growth is a major environmental issue.
I agree.
He went on to suggest that,
“In the discussion of human impact on the biosphere, two separate but interactive issues are being conflated. These two issues are climate change, due [...]

Many people are concerned by the current dominant global socio-economic paradigm in which economic growth is expected to continue forever.
I’ve commented at a previous thread that the associated issues, including resource depletion, may become “somewhat redundant” once global population starts to decline which many predict will happen before the end of this century.
A regular reader [...]

Mitchell Porter sent me a note some time ago that began:
“There is a thought I had a long time ago when talking with some zero-population-growth advocates, maybe your readership can shed some light on this. They were saying Australia was already near its human carrying capacity, and I remembered reading that Australia has a population [...]