I would like to have seen more wording around the need for better resource use. i.e. energy efficiency from land development (where estates are so designed to make it easier for houses to be designed for energy efficiency (avoiding the brick veneral disease, concrete tiled roofs brought in from down south).
And while on the subject of roofs, having them face true north, which in turn would make solar hot water and solar power systems operate effectively, rather than the miss mash way of installing them now, coated with government sweetners.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 03:54
Jasen
I found it sadly amazing that the environment wasn't as much of a concern for people. Is it that most are ignorant of the connection between high population and a lack of diversity and an ever increasing extinction rate of native species..I think so.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 06:50
Russell Luck
Infrastructure is in a very bad way presently.
Much more needs to be spent on it without even considering population "growth".
Housing prices are just disgusting and foreign ownership should be limited.
Rates, utilities, food are all on the increa$e.
With often less being provided.
Here I was thinking we just had a damn awful drought and Government scaremongering about water shortages.
I'll have to get someone to have a look at that short memory of mine.
Maybe Batman can sing a song about it?
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 07:28
damnthematrix
Humanity's greatest shortcoming is its inability to understand the exponential function.... Dr Albert Bartlett
This article is of course all piffle.
Growth WILL end, no ifs no buts. Fuel and food shortages coming in a town near you will see to that. The Club of Rome was 100% correct, it's payback time.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 07:43
Joy Ringrose
Although 80% may think that growth in inevitable, two thirds of Queenslanders are against further growth. We are rapidly approaching the limits of sustainability in QLd and elsewhere in Australia. Food and water security are going to be major problems for us in future.
It is high time that all Australians take on board the mantra "Prosperity Without Growth". It requires a completely new mindset, away from the Me First culture to the Us, Community First concept.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:04
Andrew Bartlett
"Humanity's greatest shortcoming is its inability to understand the exponential function.... Dr Albert Bartlett "
Far be it from me to contradict my namesake Dr Albert, but I understand the exponential function, and in my experience most other people do after 30 seconds explanation.
It seems to me that 'damnthematrix' is the one who doesn't understand that not all growth is exponential (including population growth) - which makes the quote of Dr Albert irrelevant in this context.
It's a good thing to debate and consider population issues, but much better again if the debate is based on reality.
There are a range of different types of growth, and a range of range of ways to work with and where desirable contain it.
Personally, I think it is better to consider these things in a holistic, global context, rather than pretending we live in our own little local bubble, but even if we only take the insular approach, there is still enormous scope for having our local infrastructure operate far more efficiently than it currently does.
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Monday, 19 July 2010 07:46
Kenneth Acushla
When politicians believe that global warming is caused by human beings than their solutions are dangerously suspect.
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Friday, 23 July 2010 04:08
ozideas
Water, soil fertility, animal and plant life, people's comfort, all demand a stable population.
Lacking our own manufactures, we rely on escalating property values and the building industry, as well as imports, for our economic prosperity on the existing economic model.
We need another model.
The pressure groups for escalating population are all short-sighted.
And while on the subject of roofs, having them face true north, which in turn would make solar hot water and solar power systems operate effectively, rather than the miss mash way of installing them now, coated with government sweetners.
Much more needs to be spent on it without even considering population "growth".
Housing prices are just disgusting and foreign ownership should be limited.
Rates, utilities, food are all on the increa$e.
With often less being provided.
Here I was thinking we just had a damn awful drought and Government scaremongering about water shortages.
I'll have to get someone to have a look at that short memory of mine.
Maybe Batman can sing a song about it?
This article is of course all piffle.
Growth WILL end, no ifs no buts. Fuel and food shortages coming in a town near you will see to that. The Club of Rome was 100% correct, it's payback time.
It is high time that all Australians take on board the mantra "Prosperity Without Growth". It requires a completely new mindset, away from the Me First culture to the Us, Community First concept.
Far be it from me to contradict my namesake Dr Albert, but I understand the exponential function, and in my experience most other people do after 30 seconds explanation.
It seems to me that 'damnthematrix' is the one who doesn't understand that not all growth is exponential (including population growth) - which makes the quote of Dr Albert irrelevant in this context.
It's a good thing to debate and consider population issues, but much better again if the debate is based on reality.
There are a range of different types of growth, and a range of range of ways to work with and where desirable contain it.
Personally, I think it is better to consider these things in a holistic, global context, rather than pretending we live in our own little local bubble, but even if we only take the insular approach, there is still enormous scope for having our local infrastructure operate far more efficiently than it currently does.
Lacking our own manufactures, we rely on escalating property values and the building industry, as well as imports, for our economic prosperity on the existing economic model.
We need another model.
The pressure groups for escalating population are all short-sighted.