TODAY is World Population Day
Jul 11th 2003, 4:09 am
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TODAY is World Population Day
Every day is a bullshit day in Australia and this is not bang another brat out day but this local looks at odds with the dreamers banging on about space in Australia , at this rate immo's will have protestors waiting at the Airports with 'Bugger off we don't you' boards .
TODAY is World Population Day, yet the growing problem of unsustainable population growth continues for all countries, with projections by the UN Population Division showing that the world's population is rising from more than six billion now to a worrying 9.3 billion humans by mid-century, almost entirely due to demographic growth in the poorest countries. The United Nations is urging developing countries to invest in family planning.
But we in the developed countries have no reason to celebrate. We can't seem to co-exist with nature, but instead deplete it of finite resources in the name of "progress", pollute and poison our soil and water, destroy wildlife habitat to make room for more of us, making many plant and animal species extinct or endangered in the process, and use resources and energy many times that of people in developing countries.
In Australia, the once pristine environment is just as over-exploited, over-developed and over-populated as it is in other industrial countries, yet despite this being the driest continent on Earth with the highest species extinction rate in the 200 short years of European invasion, the ecological destruction continues at an unprecedented rate.
We are all digging our own graves by ignoring the dangers of global warming, chronic water shortages, large-scale pollution and degraded life-support systems and when in 1994 representatives at the UN conference on world population called on each country to develop a population policy to curb growth, few countries heeded the call.
ASTRID HERLIHY, Kalamunda.
TODAY is World Population Day, yet the growing problem of unsustainable population growth continues for all countries, with projections by the UN Population Division showing that the world's population is rising from more than six billion now to a worrying 9.3 billion humans by mid-century, almost entirely due to demographic growth in the poorest countries. The United Nations is urging developing countries to invest in family planning.
But we in the developed countries have no reason to celebrate. We can't seem to co-exist with nature, but instead deplete it of finite resources in the name of "progress", pollute and poison our soil and water, destroy wildlife habitat to make room for more of us, making many plant and animal species extinct or endangered in the process, and use resources and energy many times that of people in developing countries.
In Australia, the once pristine environment is just as over-exploited, over-developed and over-populated as it is in other industrial countries, yet despite this being the driest continent on Earth with the highest species extinction rate in the 200 short years of European invasion, the ecological destruction continues at an unprecedented rate.
We are all digging our own graves by ignoring the dangers of global warming, chronic water shortages, large-scale pollution and degraded life-support systems and when in 1994 representatives at the UN conference on world population called on each country to develop a population policy to curb growth, few countries heeded the call.
ASTRID HERLIHY, Kalamunda.
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Jul 11th 2003, 4:17 am
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NO it's Bowdler day you (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted). If I've told you once I've told you a thousand times (expletive deleted) and (expletive deleted).
Now to Bowdler your post...
Every day is a (expletive deleted) day in Australia but this local looks at odds with the (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted) on about space in Australia , at this rate (expletive deleted) will have protestors waiting at the Airports with (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted) we don't you' boards .
Now to Bowdler your post...
Every day is a (expletive deleted) day in Australia but this local looks at odds with the (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted) on about space in Australia , at this rate (expletive deleted) will have protestors waiting at the Airports with (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted) we don't you' boards .
