This article explores the unsustainable nature of globalisation. If all plant and animal species were transported and intermingled globally what remains of most natural ecosystems would be destroyed by exotic invasive species that meet no natural predators or other environmental constraints to keep them in check. Diverse outbreaks of overpopulation and annihilation would ensue and biodiversity would suffer irreparable damage. Sound familiar? Modern economic dogma plans it that way. Biodiversity relies on LACK of globalisation in order to exist.
Australia has put itself on a pedestal of unsustainable absurdity with its mass migration driven pro population growth, pro carbon tax agenda; and the flag bearer of this gross absurdity has been the ABC.
The ABC argues that science proves that climate change is occurring, but at the same time denies that science also proves that population growth will destroy humanity and its environment in a very short period of time.
In 1835 when Melbourne was first settled by the English invaders there were only a small number of local Aborigines. Now 179 years later in 2014 the population is 4.25 million. At the current rate of annual growth of 2.5%, in another 179 years Melbourne's population would be around 350 million. This puts the current rate of unsustainable growth into perspective.
Those such as Melbourne's Mayor Robert Doyle and the ABC who regard population growth as "inevitable" are like climate change deniers. They seek to deny reality as a deliberate strategy for doing nothing to change the status quo. They act like a man standing in an empty 12 foot deep swimming pool with concrete blocks tied to his legs. The pool is rapidly filling with water and all the man is worried about is the carbon concentration of the air he is breathing.
What is going on at the ABC? They think we should set an example of how to destroy a developed society for all the world's underdeveloped societies to follow. A bit like the developed world did with the carbon based economy in the 20th century. China, India and other developing countries are now all following that model.
The time for ending this fatalistic complacency is long overdue.
We have two choices. Use intelligence to plan for a sustainable future or deliberately support the destruction of both humanity and the global ecosystem which supports it.
Technological development has been allowed to advance without the associated social intelligence. The quintessential form of social intelligence for humankind is population control. One way or another it will happen. If we don't put plans in place for this to happen in each individual country it will not happen in any country. This is a domestic responsibility with global consequences. If population control isn't planned it will occur in an uncontrolled way. It will not be pleasant and the humanitarian and environmental consequences will be catastrophic. We can already predict this with a high degree of certainty.
If we allow economists to continue to use their half-witted strategies to advise Governments on nation-building there will be no happy ending.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 2014-11-04 09:49
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Climate science funding continues to be cut - and must be!
"Technological development has been allowed to advance without the associated social intelligence". Governments are now gagged and hand-cuffed by their own contractions, and ineptitude, due to vested interests.
How can Australia have a part in tackling the global threat of climate change when our coal industry and exports are almost second to non in the world? It's too lucrative to leave it in the ground.
We can't be world leaders, or co-operate in climate change efforts, while our country is making mega profits from coal exports.
The Abbott government can only cut funding to climate change research, and go into full-scale denial!
Australia won't be ready to respond and predict impacts of climate change, and whole areas of research are losing funding. These concerns come as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body, released its latest report warning of irreversible damage from global warming, and climate scientists from the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and universities rush to meet Wednesday's deadline to apply for funds under the reduced National Environmental Science Programme (NESP).
SMH: climate science funding deadline looms
At the same time, we have an economy that's evolved to be locked into to high population growth, meaning that even if per capita levels of carbon emissions are reduced, in absolute terms they will continue to rise due to sheer numbers of people - consumers of fossil fuels.
Over the weekend, the government announced the Climate Change Ambassador's title would become just Ambassador for the Environment when the current holder Justin Lee steps down. Even the "environment" doesn't get much profile. We have a world heritage natural jewel of the Great Barrier Reef, but even it's protection won't stop coal-laden ships export coal near the reefs.
Waioona (not verified)
Tue, 2014-11-04 10:34
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Neoliberal Dogma
After reading Bill Gammage's "Biggest Estate on Earth" and watching indigenous Australians on NITV talk about their culture, I'm often left in tears. The invasion of Australia by gubbas has been catastrophic not only for the first nations, but for the Australian biota as a whole. Our current attitude is governed by neoliberal dogma that predicates that this attitude shall continue to dominate our thinking well into the future.
Both major political parties, governments at all levels, the mass media, big business, think tanks and many more are craven to neoliberalism. Neoliberalism which became entrenched in Australia from the advent of the Hawke Labor government in 1983 and has dominated political thinking ever since. This is the same doctrine that lead the world to the economic recession/depression of 2007. The global economy was changed forever! Nothing will be the same again despite what the economic rationalists will tell you. Inequality is here to stay as is the high growth economy especially high population growth which is being promoted by the above governments, etc. Furthermore, the current Abbott Coalition federal government with its neoconservative agenda will drive austerity measures to the hilt.
In Victoria, both the Coalition and the Labor party have jumped into bed with James Packer and his cronies at Crown in the sweetest of sweetheart deals. A vote for either party in the forthcoming state election will be a vote for more of the same in years to come. How many times, in recent years, has a government been elected on a given mandate only for that government to veer off on a tangent with secretive backroom deals? Too many! Australians, indeed Victorians, must be courageous enough to prevent this from happening. Despite the gnashing of teeth, the squealing and other fallacious arguments from the mainstream media, minority governments can make better and more decisions than majority governments. We need to send the major parties a message that enough is enough by voting elsewhere whether it be the Greens, another party or an independent. As Gough would say: "It's time"!!
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