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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 17-Jun-2009 At 10:48:43 AM R James

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You suggest that AGW does not happen, but,
>as others have asked, What if you’re wrong!

And I responded on 12/6/09. Have a look back.

I'm suggesting that realistically there's little we can do about climate, whether AGW is real or not, while we have an exponentially growing population. Most of Australia's growth comes from immigration. We choose not to overpopulate, so the government offsets this by encouraging immigration from other countries. Sensible when capital cities struggle to supply enough drinking water.

I'm not suggesting a one child policy - we need 2 - 3 children on average for stability. However, if Australia is serious about reducing emissions, for a start reduce immigration.

We need to globally acknowledge, at government level, that population increase is not in our best interests. It will require education and culture changes - this is a huge topic and outside the scope of this thread, so I won't dwell on it.

Let's just consider that world population is expected to increase by 35% by 2050 to 9.2 billion people. Does anyone really believe we'll reduce total emissions and use of resources at the same time? Politicians are pulling vote winning unachievable figures out of a hat (eg reduce emissions by 25% by 2050).

Reducing population won't win an election. However, people feel so good about reducing emissions, that not only will it win an election, the silly sheeple will pay more taxes to support it. Meanwhile, Blind Freddie can see that the emission goals are unachievable while the bigger problem of population growth is ignored.