MORE OF AUSTRALIA LIKELY TO BECOME HOT DESERT
by Queenie Alexander Tuesday January 06, 2004 at 02:51 AM

Greenhouse warming will devastate Australia but every government except Carr's is making things much worse by kowtowing to business parasites. Greens, Democrats, ACF and WWF remain silent about the big population business lobby because they rely on media approval and the media is corporatised.

Much of Australia is hot desert. Only 4% of the country is good arable land.
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~aespop/aespmappage.htm

A study has claimed that average annual temperature will rise in Australia by up to six degrees centigrade by 2070. A BBC article by Philip Mercer, 2 Jan, 2004, “Australian ‘facing hotter future’, paints a gruesome picture of unbearably high temperatures, debilitating tropical diseases, raging bushfires, and increasingly sustained droughts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3361991.stm

The ABC program, Catalyst, recently described how the Antarctic vortex of winds is contracting and causing rainfall we have relied upon on the Southern coasts since Captain Cook arrived to fall out to sea.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s948858.htm


In the midst of this the every State government, except the Carr government is dancing to the tune of a property development lobby that wants Australia to have a population of over fifty million, just so that their friends in the banks who rake in interest on mortgage lending, and their friends in forestry and mining, who supply the building materials industries, and the corporations that own or manage water and power, can sell it to more people at a higher rate for smaller units.

The selfishness of the pro-growth lobby – which includes the Labor Party and the Liberal party - is only outdone by its scientific stupidity.

Much of Australia is hot desert. Only 4% of the country is good arable land.
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~aespop/aespmappage.htm

Whilst the puppets of the rich, Bracks and Thwaites, do their job of making Victorians feel guilty about the water, power and living space we use, their policies are increasing the overall demand for these things.

Is this democracy?
No, it is plutocracy. Australia is ruled by the corporate sector.
You won’t read this in the mainstream press because it is the mouthpiece of the corporate sector: the bankers, the pipes, paper and building material merchants, the corporate irrigator lobby, and the housing and land production industry. Just take a look at the proportion of the Age that is comprised of real estate advertising and their property dot com http://www.domaine.com.au. Or look at the Australian’s: http://www.realestate.com.au. Or look at the lifestyle programs on the commercial television stations. Even the ABC promotes APOP conferences. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/stories/s994078.htm. The Australian Population Institute (APOP)is a propaganda wing for property developers!


Why don’t the Greens, the Democrats, the ACF and WWF come out fighting for the rest of us? Sadly, maybe they too have all come to depend on the same corporatised media approval and have easily been cowed by mainstream manipulation of wedge politics.

They don’t even criticise development these days, let alone the foolhardiness of increasing our population. They need help!

For real ecology try http://www.population.org.au
For real political policies, try http://www.republicans.org.au


Respect yourselves and make your representatives respect you!

Queenie Alexander

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