Open borders harm environment
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By Brenda Walker
From Australia, but this is the same argument that we Sierra Club reformers made years ago, that environmental goals of many sorts cannot be met when a nation has explosive population growth. And it makes a big difference when millions of people from low-resource-use societies to the first world, where their ecological footprint will be much larger.
The report said Australia’s high population growth would be a major driver of greenhouse http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4688, and would counter tough government measures to reduce carbon output.
But the Rudd Government and its climate adviser Ross Garnaut were ignoring the population issue at their peril, said the study, entitled Labor’s Greenhouse Aspirations, by Monash’s Centre for Population and Urban Research.
The nation’s migrant intake is at record levels, with the Government recently announcing an increase of 37,500 places for 2008-09.Given current migration and fertility rates, the population will increase by at least 10 million to 31.6 million by 2050.