The politics of reducing energy use significantly ... will generally defeat any government, but reducing immigration would be much easier. And yet net immigration is running at 180,000 a year, at which rate the population will rise to 31.6 million in 2050. The implications of this for Australia's carbon footprint are enormous, yet almost never discussed.
Australians produce more greenhouse gases than any other nationality. Therefore on average, every immigrant, no matter where they come from, will increase their emissions by moving to Australia.
Birrell notes there is a "dissociation between government aspiration and action", and he's not wrong.
'... reducing immigration would be much easier'
July 26, 2008 , Michael Duffy
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