Population Minister avoids Population Issues

Agamedes notes that the new federal "population minister" is ignoring the main issue. And even avoiding the take-no-responsibility issue.

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"Newly minted Population Minister Tony Burke has effectively ruled out setting a population target..." according to The West on 9 April 2010 (Minister dodges population target). So the new minister has no real goal. Okay, fair enough, it's no more than we expect from a politician.

Wouldn't it be really nice if some brave person were to actually say, This is how many people we want to have in Australia? Then we could get to the main issue of, How do we reach or limit or maintain that population level... Without inviting destruction of our standard of living, destruction of the environment, or invasion by people who see that we still have a spare corner in which to turn land into human wasteland.

The main population issue is, How many people do we want? Once we decide that, we can consider how to live comfortably with that population.

The new population minister will not set a population target. Worse... either the minister or the reporter have completely missed the issue.

"... saying it would be impossible to predict the number of Australians by 2050."

Predict?!

Think of a number and double it. How many people do you want? We can do that -- as long as the number is a lot larger that today's population. We do not want to predict -- we want to decide!

Australia is already suffering from over-population. We can buy as many digital TVs as we like, we can watch as many wild-life documentaries as we want, we are still destroying the natural environment. And putting pressure on the man-made environment. That's my opinion.

I believe that we should have less people. I will settle for a stable population. If the majority want more, well, that's fine, we live in a democracy.

But for goodness sake, we need to decide!

Come to some sort of democratic consensus. Decide how many people we want in Australia. And then plan and take action to reach that population, to maintain that population -- and then, to cope with that level of population.

A population minister who has no idea of what population would be ideal? Who does not even know what population will -- if we do nothing at all -- be achieved? What a waste of space.

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