For decades, environmentalists have been shouting that the world is overpopulated, and will soon run out of food, oil, and other necessities on which modern societies depend. Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, published in 1968, set the scene for the adoption of “zero population growth” policies in most Western countries, as well as some in…
Despite two successive years of terrible bushfires which destroyed hundreds of homes, killed tens of thousands of animals and the livelihood of many people, in the key bushfire states, Victoria and New South Wales, the steps necessary to prevent a recurrence have been largely ignored. In New South Wales, the Government departments responsible for management…
HONG KONG: In an exclusive interview with News Weekly, the leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, Martin Lee, said that elections to be held in Hong Kong next year would tell whether China is willing to allow any form of democracy within the country. When China took over control of Hong Kong about five years…
The recent visit to Australia of Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish statistics professor and author of the bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist, has predictably been met with fierce criticism. Labor’s Shadow Minister for the Environment, Kelvin Thompson, was given time on the ABC to criticise the visit. “I believe that [Lomborg’s visit] is because neither the Institute…
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