Marvellous Melbourne's obesity problem.

Pro growth-ism is all tied into the notion that infinite population growth is required for infinite economic growth. You simply need more and more people to sell more and more things to!

Our population growth is fuelled mainly by an excessive immigration rate, and so is our "natural" birth rate.

However, the pro-growth lobby has bundled any discussion regarding limiting immigration and an optimal population figure for Australia as not "politically correct" or racist! It is not about the quality of our immigrants, their race or culture, but about sustainability - a word we hear so much about but one that is totally ignored!

Other European countries are capable of having small population growth, limited immigration but large GDPs. We need to invest in our own population, our own young people and not burden them with prohibitive HECS charges while we supposedly have "skills shortages". Our universities and other educational institutions are now part of an export industry, and as a back-door for points towards residency in Australia.

It used to be "populate or perish" but now we are being threatened by "populate and perish" because most people are ignorant about the mathematical concept of exponential growth, and that our resources are finite!

Our "unsinkable" Titanic is planet Earthship!

RMS Titanic (also SS Titanic) was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business. Owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, the Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of its launching.

During Titanic's maiden voyage, it struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, and sank two hours and forty minutes later at 2:20 AM Monday morning.

The sinking resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, ranking
it as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the
most famous.

It was supposedly "unsinkable" due to the use of the most advanced technology of the time.

During the sinking of the ill-fated HMS Titanic, many people didn't want to board the life-boats because they felt safer in their cabins! That's why many were launched almost empty, and then when the inevitable became obvious, there weren't enough life boats so most of the passengers drowned.

http://www.titanic-nautical.com/RMS-Titanic-W.php

The Titanic's record of disaster is so much like climate change! Our "unsinkable" Titanic is planet Earthship. We can't change human culture or mindset until the end is visible, when it will be too late for most of humanity, and the non-human creatures we will take with us.

Anthropocentric attitudes, that the World was made for human existence and couldn't be destroyed by human impact and numbers, will also cause resistance to change.
Addressing climate change will be a hard battle, and the existing mindset and culture attached to Capitalistic ideals will form a firm barrier of scepticism.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/milne-the-climate-nightmare-is-upon-us/

Even Greens' deputy leader Christine Milne doesn't mention exponential population growth and that any efforts to cut carbon emissions are negated by more people.
More people will make the Titanic sink faster, and ultimately mean more fatalities.