Sleepwalking to Catastrophe
Since October 31 is the Day of Seven Billion, now would be an excellent time for you to submit a letter to the editor to your local paper, linking global growth to a local growth issue that is currently in the news.
Thanks to Fiona Heinrichs for this link to her new book, Sleepwalking to Catastrophe. The book can be found at www.sleepwalking-to-catastrophe.com. Following is a review of the book by Frosty Wooldridge, published at http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/740/504/Australian_immigration:_unsustainable_on_a_desert_continent.html
Honors graduate Fiona Heinrichs understands Australia’s unsustainable future in her latest piece, “Collapseology: why this should be shaping Australian public policy.”
She is an honors graduate from Sydney who is very concerned about population growth and environmental sustainability.
She has recently authored a book titled, Sleepwalking to Catastrophe: ‘Big Australia’, Immigration, Population Expansion and the Impossibility of Endless Economic Growth in a Finite World. It can be found at Sleepwalking-to-Catastrophe.
Australia’s landmass equals America’s lower 48 states, but with one big exception. Australia features 96 percent desert. It lacks water, arable land and resources to carry its current population load. Yet, politicians remain bent on adding 10 million more people to Australia. What does Australia face with the projected 10 million added humans?
To read the full article, please click here: http://beforeitsnews.com/story/740/504/Australian_immigration:_unsustainable_on_a_desert_continent.html
October 28th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
It is a shame that ‘the brightest and the best’ among us have perpetrated a sham on the human community and, as a result, are ravaging the world we inhabit as well as turning it into a shambles.
The idea that our descendants would make the same colossal mistakes we are making now, because knowledgeable people in our time chose to remain hysterically blind, deaf and electively mute rather than acknowledge science, is anathema to me as well as absolutely unacceptable to those I respect. If such an impossible thing was to occur, would a conscious determination not to fulfill both a responsibility to science and a duty to warn humanity be tantamount to the greatest failure of nerve by the brightest and best in human history? If aware and responsible human beings were to be granted the opportunity “to will one thing”, let it be that we share widely an adequate enough understanding of all extant science which discloses the population dynamics of the human species to the family of humanity, so those who come after us do not take the “primrose path” we are trodding now, a path that has been adamantly advocated and relentlessly pursued at the behest of the most arrogant, avaricious, foolhardy, wealthy and powerful movers and shakers on our watch, a path to confront some unimaginable, human-driven sort of colossal global ecological wreckage.
November 18th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
The self-proclaimed masters of the universe among us may be a lot things, but “clueless” or else “disconnected” is not, definitely not an accurate way of describing them. Their overly educated sycophants and absurdly enriched minions present this BS about them as if it represented something factual. It is a ruse. These masters of the universe know what is going on. After all, they are ruling the world in our time. They happen to be the best people I know at ‘playing stupid’. As a group, these too-big-to-jail captains of too-big-to-fail enterprises can better be defined by their malignant narcissism, pathological arrogance, risk-taking addiction, extreme foolhardiness and outrageous greedmongering activities.
November 29th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
We can already see that we have not a long wait before coming face to face with what happens where the straight superhighway we have been traveling with effortless ease becomes a narrow, curved cliffside passage; for we are the ones who are alive in a pivotal moment in human history, when economic and ecologic systems fail, a global empire (like a house of cards) collapses and self-proclaimed masters of the universe (who are primarily responsible for the colossal catastrophe looming before humanity) take off in private jets and yachts for secret hideaways in faraway places….come what may.