http://www.embraceaustralia.com/australia-the-case-for-immigration-6332.htm The number one website on Australian immigration, emigrate to Australia with our visa guide, Australia travel guide Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:58:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.embraceaustralia.com/australia-the-case-for-immigration-6332.htm#comment-1015 Milly Osborne Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:59:45 +0000 http://www.embraceaustralia.com/?p=6332#comment-1015 "Australia, as we know it today, has been built on immigration". True, we needed people to build an economy of scale. But we can't keep growing our population forever! It is totally unscientific and irresponsible that we can have endless growth. Already our Murray Darling food bowl is under stress, and our Ramsar wetland record is abysmal. Victoria is 70% cleared already and our water supplies are being depleted. Our soil salination is increasing. It is arrogant and completely anthropocentric to imagine that we can't out-run our environmental resources. Once ecosystems meltdown, we become a "pest" species. “Australia, as we know it today, has been built on immigration”. True, we needed people to build an economy of scale. But we can’t keep growing our population forever! It is totally unscientific and irresponsible that we can have endless growth. Already our Murray Darling food bowl is under stress, and our Ramsar wetland record is abysmal. Victoria is 70% cleared already and our water supplies are being depleted. Our soil salination is increasing. It is arrogant and completely anthropocentric to imagine that we can’t out-run our environmental resources. Once ecosystems meltdown, we become a “pest” species.

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