CANBERRA TIMES LETTER | Population pressures We do not seem to be aware the large annual increase in Australias population (about 400,000) has serious implications. Future food supplies cannot be assured, while right now government budgets are in disarray partially due to the additional costs of basic supplies and infrastructure; these apparently total tens of billions of dollars. Our birth rates, and especially immigration intakes, must therefore be substantially reduced; otherwise it eventually becomes a fight for survival in this land with its predominantly infertile soils as well as the generally low and unreliable rainfall. Let us not become like so many Middle Eastern countries, where civil strife is undoubtedly partially driven by overpopulation and food shortages. Judith L. Watson, Latham
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 22:29:23 +0000
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