I'm an economic management professional and will be explaining the 'why' of current events using economic drivers creating the observed outcomes #sustainability
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"Building resilience from the ground up"
This's how we see the great rebuild shaping up
The abandonment of reckless growth (population/economic),
to be replaced with a dynamic state of balance at sustainable scale.
Population - Lifestyle... in balance with natural systems.
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Sooner or later, those who are responsible will also be affected, because nobody is above the laws of nature.💚🌿☘️🌱🌲🌳🍀💚
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US burns through 20 million barrels of oil per day, which is 20% of global consumption
Now Trump is increasing emissions equal to the equivalent of running 165 million gas-powered passenger vehicles for a year
Trump wants to fry the planet
dw.com/en/weakened-us-fuel-e…
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Every now & then it's useful to highlight a single impact of population growth.
Sand- just another resource once thought to be "unlimited", now under growing stress* as population growth demands construction boom.
*This means the price goes up.
population.org.au/media-rele…
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Not sure we can wriggle our way out of this one….
#ClimateCrisis
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"Don't repeat the same mistake & expect a different result"
For 20 yrs we've been told mass immigration will solve the ageing problem, skills shortages, the housing crisis & improve the economy & everyone's lives.
For 20 yrs all these things have gone backwards!
population.org.au/sign-the-s…
20 yrs ago our political class (across the spectrum) united to commit 100% to mass immigration/rapid population growth.
20 yrs on- & despite its obvious & catastrophic failure for the Australian people, it seems nothing will deter them from their agenda.
macrobusiness.com.au/2026/09…
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Climate Actions - Sustainability - Leadership for the next generation #LeadershipMatters - STORIES that matters with more than 50 leaders - at all levels - in Transformers podcast bit.ly/3ucjYdk #Parisagreement - #SDG - #ESG #Biodiversity
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Definitely! How on Earth do people think that the world in which they can have these thoughts was constructed?! By Divine Providence? It was by engineers.
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Not only is this a dangerous road traffic issue, it is a serious resource issue too. Larger vehicles worse particulate & carbon emissions. EVs are better, but they are already heavier than past vehicles - larger ones are unnecessary.
When are we going to think of the environment?
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Along a quarter of the planet's coastal waterways, humans contribute more harmful nitrogen—via agricultural runoff, wastewater discharges and other activities—than all natural sources combined.
phys.org/news/2026-09-humans…
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"A shrinking population might actually be a good thing"
Many articles warn about falling birth rates, stoking fears that a shrinking population will destroy the economy. This ignores how other factors influence economic growth.
Chris Gay explains how increased productivity gains can counteract the effects of a smaller working force, ultimately allowing the population to shrink while ensuring greater well-being.
overpopulation-project.com/a…
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People say it's ONLY rich over-consumption*, NOT #overpopulation that destroys the planet, but-
We now have a global middle class of 4-4.4 billion (& growing).
These are not rich over consumers, mostly poor who've moved up. There are another 3 billion who deserve this opportunity.
Rich over-consumers aside, if you think the earth can sustainably support 7.4 billion, at middle class consumption levels you are dangerously delusional.
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*SPA acknowledges that overconsumption at the top end is also a problem which must be addressed. We advocate an holistic, ethical response.
population.org.au/about-popu…
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Humanity’s greatest risk - Triggering climate tipping points
Humanity is increasing climate-heating gases at the fastest rate in the whole history of the planet . . What took centuries now occurs in decades.
theraven.substack.com/p/conf…
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Inconvenient FACT:
A global population of 1 billion would give all ample use of the earth's resources to eliminate poverty without degrading the planet.
The task becomes difficult at 2 billion, & impossible after that... we are currently at 8.3 billion, still growing at 70k pa.
We only sustain our numbers through mounting ecological debt.
So tell us again that we must not discuss #overpopulation.
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The #migration #immigration crisis dominating our political discourse is poorly explained usually without context
Proposals are recited at suggestion level with no analysis
My @substack post briefly summarizes using #economic #management approach
open.substack.com/pub/thewhy…
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This idiotic confusion of temperature change at a location with temperature change over time is the same mistake that economists have made to claim 3C of warming won’t be a big deal.
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“We have been taught over thousands of years to interpret images of utter devastation and extinction as great leaps forward in a civilisation. This level of moral incompetence is exactly why humans could soon be going extinct”
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What is the economy actually for?
Adam Smith would have recognised the question immediately. Smith was a moral philosopher concerned with prosperity, institutions and human flourishing.
The economy was a means. Human wellbeing was the end. theschism.org/economics-fail…