09 November 2010

The Bomb is Still Ticking



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'It is difficult to determine whether the authors of the article ‘Population bomb still a fizzer 40 years on’ (The Australian, 8 November) are mischievous attention-seekers or ill-informed myopics....

Contrary to the authors’ claims, the vast majority of people who identify as environmentalists are not misanthropists – they are absolutely concerned with humanity.

Maintaining our natural capital, our natural asset base, is a non-negotiable prerequisite for securing human survival and wellbeing.

Whether or not anyone ‘worships nature as a goddess’ is irrelevant – what we should be interested in is physics and biology 101, which is that ecosystems and biodiversity are (aside from their own intrinsic worth) the life support systems of humanity....'

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