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Australia has no special immunity from the destructive power of human population growth. Unless we stabilise NOW- we WILL join the rest of the world in poverty & eco-ruin.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Living with population growth... &, so long as mass immigration* continues it will only get worse. *Australia's population explosion is almost entirely immigration driven.

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The problem with saving the world is that the changes we need to make are "big picture", i.e. tackling the twin drivers of eco-impacts- economic/population growth. And most are "small picture" thinkers i.e. paper straws & electric cars.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

We might add "QUALITY housing & infrastructure"- jamming people into poorly planned & designed concrete high rises with inadequate access to green space, ... doesn't count.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

“If policymakers are genuinely concerned about ‘solving’ the rental crisis, they will reduce immigration to a level below the nation’s capacity to build housing and infrastructure. It is the only genuine solution. Everything else is tinkering at the edges” www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/02/rent...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

So let's have meaningful engagement around optimal #immigration numbers, ... & let's stick to economic & ecological facts. Bring it on- we're ready!

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

In order to evade engaging with us on the flawed/corporate/landlord economics, & ecological damage of their mass immigration Big Australia (population) agenda, ... advocates deliberately mis-represent us- calling us "anti-immigration" which is a lie. Our issue is with the scale of immigration!

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In 2022 when climate models were saying a 1.5 C world would not happen until at least 2040 I said it would happen in 5 to 10 years Unfortunately it only took 2 years and we are already in a 1.5 C world Global warming is accelerating

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

What is with this complete taboo on mentioning #overpopulation? Why is everyone so scared of even attempting a rational conversation on the economics/environmental impacts of it. We just don't understand where this has come from. (note: now over 8 billion- & still, we mustn't talk about it)

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With 8.2 billion hungry humans, & "growth" obsessed economies- & with companies constantly seeking to expand markets (populations) - Animal ethics quickly get tossed aside as we must always find new ways to expand food production, ... and profits.

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480 million years old: Octopuses have sex chromosomes more ancient than dinosaurs Now Spain wants to factory farm and breed over a million Octopuses stuffed in tanks in constant light and then freeze them to death interestingengineering.com/science/olde...

submitted 119 days ago • 7 comments

Low birth rates are to be celebrated- they're a sign of a successful, healthy, developed and well balanced society.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

The property moguls are building massive, ugly, high rise property developments- ... which require huge population increases to fill. "Say NO to a Big Australia!" population.org.au/sign-the-spa... pic.x.com/3NG4ko1Qgi

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

#ClimateEmergency is a symptom, just one of many, ... of overshoot. #degrowth alleviates all the symptoms simultaneously.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Australians are being bamboozled by those invested in the Big Australia population agenda... and their puppet politicians/journalists. The most dangerous bamboozle in our history.

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As the world toxifies under the strain of #overpopulation, ... even a pure glass of clean water is already a luxury for many.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Support for the Big (population) Australia / mass immigration agenda comes from 2 groups: Those who do not understand the destructive economics and ecology of it, ... & from those who profit from it. population.org.au/sign-the-spa...

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Once a city exceeds 2 million people quality of life declines steadily with each additional person. Cities simply do not function well or feel the same as they get progressively larger. The pleasant inner cores of Melbourne & Sydney are now surrounded by garbage suburbs ... agree?

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AUSTRALIA'S HOUSING CRISIS- in numbers! 1980 Median house price- $76,500. Median wage- $13,500 ... median house price about 5.5X median income 2024 Median house price- $985,900 Median wage- $65,000 .. median house price over 15X the median income (Immigration in 1980 was 1/5th of 2024)

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

Our unsustainable civilisation violates physics, math, and logic itself. It is designed to collapse

submitted 129 days ago • 3 comments

The continued cheap mass production of goods necessitated the cheap mass production of consumers within closely monitored farmed environments called cities tsakraklides.com/2025/01/27/t...

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NEW REPORT Federal land managers are increasingly using ecological objectives such as 'restoration' & 'enhancing resilience' to approve forest mgmt projects that focus on commercial logging. To what extent are these projects scientifically informed, & likely to achieve the outcomes they propose?🧵🌏

submitted 170 days ago • 7 comments

The moral of the story, to be under planet carrying capacity, in a world of 8.2 billion we would all need to live in or near poverty, or for a semi-decent life there needs to be half as many of us or less populationmatters.org/solutions/

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Brazil Lula says he supports climate action and then joins forces with right wing to build a major highway through heart of Amazon forest UK labor decide to sink climate bill The whole festering left liberal right wing alliance all put profit before life on Earth

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>>> NOW’S THE TIME! “Stabilising our population eases pressure on traffic” How was your commute this morning? Please sign/share & support our campaign if you agree: population.org.au/sign-the-spa...

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Nothing a few million more migrants won't fix- ?

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Too many see our stunning & unique #desert ecosystems as wasted land- needing to be "developed" & populated by humans- for profit. Why not leave them as they are? SPA says: "Stabilising our population eases pressure on ecosystems" sign/share if you agree: population.org.au/sign-the-spa...

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“The continued cheap mass production of goods necessitated the cheap mass production of consumers within closely monitored farmed environments called cities”

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

“By creating an economy of disposable humans and disposable products, humanity made itself disposable in the most perverse, self-destructive and unconscious way” tsakraklides.com/2025/01/22/a...

submitted 133 days ago • 3 comments

This increasingly sentient economic entity puts profits above people, nature and planet: the cheaper the labour and the quicker the natural devastation, the wider the profit margins.

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In late 2024, we proudly welcomed Professor Anne Poelina as our newest Patron. This mini-podcast episode features the audio recording from a video interview that co-host Michael Bayliss conducted with Anne as part of SPA's "Meet the Patrons" series. pgap.fireside.fm/annepoelinap...

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"In two years I’ve had a 1.7% pay rise. Yet, in the same time, insurance has risen 35%, electricity 17%, housing 30%, supermarket bill 20%. Is the government trying to create a country of working poor?" Sound familiar anyone? #auspol

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Ocean Heat Content is a key measure of global warming since over 90% of the heat from the greenhouse effect is absorbed by the world’s oceans. A lot of attention is on the SST which has been rising rapidly, but what of the deep ocean? The first graph shows the Ocean Heat Content at 3 depths.

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"The number of Australian 🇦🇺 students enrolling in PhDs has declined by almost 10% in less than a decade [...] with skyrocketing living costs and a lack of government support acting as major deterrents for potential candidates, almost 60% of whom are women." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Why won't they tell us when population growth ends? Is this a process without end? a process without biophysical limits? Dick Smith's newspaper ads running this week. sign/share our Position Statement: population.org.au/sign-the-spa...

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News Flash- immigration still on the rise! ABS data shows net perm. & long-term arrivals from January to September 2024 were 391,850, the highest September year-to-date on record. The previous record set in 2023 was 390,580.12 Nov 2024 SPA says: "A stable population eases pressure on everything!"

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