By Dick Smith – The Sydney Morning Herald
It's the obvious but forbidden truth: on a finite and already swollen planet, we can't expand indefinitely.
Some time in the next few months, the world's population clock will tick over 7 billion people. Global population has tripled in my lifetime, and is continuing to rise. The United Nations has just predicted we face a world of 10 billion in 2100. This has immense implications for all of us, and Australia will not be immune from the impacts.
Dick Smith is a businessman and former Australian of the year. Dick Smith's Population Crisis is published today by Allen & Unwin.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-idiocy-of-endless-growth-20110529-1fata.html#ixzz1NqMLyeev
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