What is Australias sustainable population?
Friday, 24 November 2000 Sustainable agriculture, sustainable development…sustainability… it has become almost a clich in the past few years and, through it all, the terrifying trend line of the world’s population climbs relentlessly upwards. Just how to accommodate ecological sustainability with the economic growth required to provide jobs, living space and other resources for our growing numbers is a major challenge, with different and often opposing views coming from the ranks of conservationists, business leaders and more. It will be a pervading theme in the Conference of the Australian Population Association, being held in Melbourne from November 29th to December 1st at Rydges Riverwalk Hotel. Entitled ‘Population and Globalisation: Australia in the 21st Century’, the conference will bring together some impressive speakers. The keynote address, ‘Green growth: an oxymoron?’ will be given by Professor Paul Ehrlich, whose apocalyptic book, ‘The Population Bomb’, prompted worldwid
