http://www.theage.com.au/national/sl…0421-adz4.html
April 21, 2009
Australia should consider having a one-child policy to protect the planet, an environmental lobby group says. Sustainable Population Australia says slashing the world’s population is the only way to avoid “environmental suicide”.
National president Sandra Kanck wants Australia’s population of almost 22 million reduced to seven million to tackle climate change. And restricting each couple to one baby, as China does, is “one way of assisting to reduce the population”.
“It’s something we need to throw into the mix,” the former Democrats parliamentarian told AAP.
More people means more coal-fired electricity, cars, houses, water use and food production, all of which increase greenhouse gas emissions, she said. Ms Kanck, who has one child herself, expects her campaign will receive a hostile reaction.
“The Catholic church is going to be in like Flynn on an argument like this.”
Sustainable Population Australia, which has about 1300 members, is so worried about climate change it is preparing a formal submission to the United Nations. It has also applied to attend high-profile world climate talks in Copenhagen in December. Australia’s population has been increasing steadily and the Federal Government plans to continue the trend, largely through immigration.
The world’s population stands at 6.7 billion, according to the US Census Bureau.
“Increasing the population is basically suicide, it’s environmental suicide, it’s utterly irresponsible,” Ms Kanck said.
“We are eating away at the planet, we are eating into all the resources, be it petrol, be it superphosphate, be it clear air.”
Ms Kanck also suggested Australia scrap the baby bonus, and restrict paid maternity leave and IVF to the first baby only, to discourage large families. She did not suggest restrictions to immigration, saying Australia should take responsibility for cutting its own population instead of barring entry to others.
China introduced its one-child policy in 1979.
A Chinese academic visiting Canberra last week said the policy had avoided 300 million births and had therefore made a major contribution to the fight against climate change.
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Look at it this way:
There are approx 6 billion people on the planet.
Australia alone has 2.97 million square miles, which can be broken down to 7,603,000, 200 quarter acre blocks of land.
Every man, woman and child on Earth could get their own quarter acre block of land for a house and a garden to sustain themselves – and half of Queensland would be left over AND THE REST OF THE ENTIRE PLANET.
The world is not over populated. We are made to think that so it takes the focus off the real reason why there’s poverty.
The real reason is privately owned companies like the Federal Reserve Bank – yes, a private company, are lending money to 1st and 3rd world nations _at interest_, and funding wars to both sides _at interest_. We’re living in a self-perpetuating debt cycle. And these private companies have made it ILLEGAL to be audited! It’s in their own interest to turn our focus off alternative fuel sources and believe that oil and their other environmentally hazardous investments are our only realistic solutions.
Rid the world of this small group of criminally elite banksters who only have capital on their minds and there’ll be absolutely no reason why we can’t all feel 100% positive about bringing healthy, happy families into this world.