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Why facts (voters) can’t get a look-in against ‘Huge Australia’ groupthink

By Stephen Saunders - posted Thursday, 21 March 2024


But climate policy doesn't fix overpopulation – and overpopulation doesn't fix the economy.

Despite our population mushrooming to 27 million, educated groupthink says water-challenged Australia can carry on to 40 million. UN "climate action" and "net zero" will fix it.

Wait on - population growth drives growing emissions and a failing environment. This is the Anthropocene. Ignoring chronic over-population and under-productivity, the treasurer and elite stakeholders romance the green superpower as our economic homerun.

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By design, few of us can absorb the sheer mass of UN IPCC climate-crunching. But it's not rocket-science. Huge Australia is divisive economics and lousy "climate policy".

Takeaway

Albanese's Huge Australia is dug in. Stakeholders riff on curated immigration fibs. To inconvenient facts and evidence - even the stark housing misery - they give short shrift. Awfully difficult to counter, when their prevailing mindset is open borders and "net zero".

Despite Opposition gestures of concern, low migration won't be offered at Election 2025. Huge Australia is unstoppable, unless massed stakeholders flip. They're too selfish for that.

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