I bow to the moderators’ views of course, but I would have thought that anything that potentially has an impact on birds – and environmental degradation, whether caused by global warming or population pressures, certainly will have an impact – is a suitable topic to raise on BA. I would hope that all BA readers are concerned about the environment and will consider it as an issue (maybe not their most important one) in all elections, whether local, state or federal.
On 10 August 2010 16:03, Bob Cook
> A bit off topic for this forum??? > > —–Original Message—– > From: birding-aus-bounces@vicnet.net.au > [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Dave Torr > Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:08 AM > To: Greg Little > Cc: birding-aus > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Dick Smith’s Population Puzzle > > Statistically boat people are insignificant – a few thousand in a growth > measured in the hundreds of thousands. There are I think three issues that > need to be thought about: > > Firstly what is our ideal population – those in favour of growth point to > the “fact” that our whole economic system is based on growth and without an > ever expanding population this is difficult to achieve. There is indeed > some > basis to this – but we cannot grow exponentially for ever. Where do you > stop > – 35 million? 100 million? 1 billion? Proponents of growth should either > state the limit they think we should reach – and how we will tackle the > problems that – according to them – only growth can solve when we reach > that > limit, or else adopt the approach that we can grow without any limit ever. > Having determine our ideal population how do we reach that figure? If we > need to grow do we do it by encouraging the existing population to breed > more or do we encourage more migrants? > Finally if we are to increase by migration then we can have the debate on > skilled migrants (which tend to such skills from less well off countries) > or > family reunion or refugees….. > > On 10 August 2010 10:59, Greg Little
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