Thread: Open Border commies vs Climate wackos

Immigration must be cut to tackle climate change, says study

IMMIGRATION must be slashed if Australia has any chance of seriously tackling climate change, says a Monash University study.

The report said Australia's high population growth would be a major driver of greenhouse emissions, and would counter tough government measures to reduce carbon output.

But the Rudd Government and its climate adviser Ross Garnaut were ignoring the population issue at their peril, said the study, entitled Labor's Greenhouse Aspirations, by Monash's Centre for Population and Urban Research.

The nation's migrant intake is at record levels, with the Government recently announcing an increase of 37,500 places for 2008-09.

Given current migration and fertility rates, the population will increase by at least 10 million to 31.6 million by 2050.

Monash researchers Bob Birrell and Ernest Healy used computer modelling to predict the effect of population and economic growth on greenhouse emissions.

If no carbon trading scheme is introduced, Australian emissions will reach 797 million tonnes - or four times Labor's target - by 2050, the researchers found.

Emissions would only fall to 502 million tonnes if the nation managed to cut carbon intensity levels by one per cent a year under a tough cap and trade scheme.

"The problem with radical decarbonisation proposals is the limited political feasibility of these measures,'' the authors said.

"It is hard to understand why the population driver has been ignored in the recent debate, including the work of the Garnaut climate change review.''

The authors said that net migration would contribute to most of the 50 per cent increase in Australia's population over the next 40 years.

"Like all Australians they'll be living at twice the standard of living of current residents if the Government's predictions for per capita economic growth are correct,'' they said.

"Clearly, it's not possible to achieve the Government's target of 60 per cent reduction in emissions at the same time we add an extra 10 million people living at twice the current income level.''

The authors called for immigration to be slashed, and the population stabilised at about 22 million by 2050.

Prof Garnaut has predicted the population will reach 47 million by 2100.

The Monash report, which appeares in the latest issue of university journal People and Place, will be released today

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What a great idea. We need to stop immigration of all sorts until we can figure out who is here, illegally sneaking in, overstaying their visitors visas, demanding rights, education, healthcare, etc. It is not only pollution all these people contribute to, but the destruction of our hospitals, schools, etc. at taxpayers expense. No one even mentions our resources like WATER, additional pressure on our courts, roads, houseing, utilities, parks, etc., again relying on taxpayer dollars to foot the bill.

Immigration can be stopped.

But How can any government control grouth of population?

Any attempt to tell people that they are regulated to having too many kids or telling them that they are not allowed to have kids will never work!

And by the rate cretian groups are having kids all of our resourses will be spent sooner than later....... The world is only so big and people in general are too selfish to leave some sapce for future generations.