Thread: SHOULDN'T WE BE SERIOUSLY STOPPING OUR POPULATION GROWTH?

Reduce immigration to immediate family reunion where strong grounds exist.

Create economic and cultural factors towards two children per family.

I dont think it should be about how many australia can carry, but about how many is the rational amount, taking into account climate change, species depletion, bushland destruction, resource depletion, pollution, etc.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I wasn't meaning for it to be political or I would have posted it in current affairs , which restricts other forum members from this information.

Currently all streams and river levels .....unless there has been rainfall in their catchments.....throughout Australia are reported to be at their lowest levels or dry.

According to BOM there is no immediate good outlook for rain anywhere in Australia in the near future.

It should be of interest to all as water restrictions will very quickly be placed upon us.

All this from a country that hasnt built a new dam in something like 30 plus years . Millions upon millions of litres of water goes down the drain during our wet season up here year after year. Our main dam has overflowed the last 6 yrs in a row. I cant understand why when built the railway line from SA to Darwin they didn't put a underground water pipe alongside it whilst they had all the workers and machinery already there. could have TEE'd it at Tennent creek and ran it to Mt Isa and beyond.

Its the typical shortsightedness of consecutive governments and it wont change in the near future. We could solve most of our issue's but no one has the foresight to start investing in the infrastucture to link the whole country , not just the big eastern states.

Just my 2c

Cheers Ean

Originally Posted by donh54

Apparently, the third most common cause of death (in the USA, at least) is by medical error!
After heart disease and cancer, doctors are the most lethal thing in First World countries!

And Yank doctors charge a fortune to kill you.

Originally Posted by goingbush

Somehow I find this relevant

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Don’t have time to do a detailed response but “BS” springs to mind....

Try a realistic figure of 18-40 litres/kg of edible meat yield is far from his 1500 litres so guess the rest of his figures are vegan/animal activist propaganda as well....

Desalination plants will solve all our issues....

Originally Posted by Homestar

Desalination plants will solve all our issues....

They are power hungry.....How do we power them.....

Originally Posted by goingbush

Somehow I find this relevant

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Good find mate, yes I believe it is relevant.

The world bovine population is only there because we want to eat their meat and drink their milk , neither of which are necessary to support our lives......but never the less most enjoyable.

Well I'm sure as **** not going Vegan while my arse points to the ground and most of the population is the same, so it will either kill us or we'll have to find a solution. I find the propaganda from these people unpalatable at best too. While some of their claims may be close, they also sprout all sorts of BS about how little of the meat is used and how wasteful the industry is and how cruel it is, etc. There isn't anything left but the moo by the time they are processed and for those that say 'Would you still eat cows if you went to an Abattoir?' - answer is I have and I still do.

I won't continue, we probably need a whole new thread on Vegans and how they are ****ing the world too. They're the first ones I'd ban from breeding...

Originally Posted by weeds

They are power hungry.....How do we power them.....

Nuclear of course...

Desal plants and Nuclear power stations have to be built near 2 things so they are a perfect match to be built next to each other - a water supply and a halfway decent part of the grid (which the Vic one isn't really, but not hard to get a decent Terminal station to it) Problem solved. Would I have one in my backyard? Yep, sure would. Be an easy commute to work then...