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Dick Smith
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Booming population bad for health: Dick Smith
ENTREPRENEUR Dick Smith has continued his campaign to highlight the potential problems the world’s growing population could have on health and environmental sustainability with the release this week of his book, Dick Smith’s Population Crisis . The book discusses the possible implications of unchecked population growth, including food, water and power shortages, and points out that Australia – which has one of the fastest growing populations of any developed nation – would be deeply affected. “Our present system is a classic Ponzi scheme… That is, many politicians state that we need to continually grow in population ...
Dick Smith joins doctors’ sustainability campaign
ENTREPRENEUR Dick Smith has thrown his weight behind a doctor-led campaign highlighting the health-related dangers of unchecked population growth. The campaign, launched this week by advocacy group Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA), will see posters sent to more than 20,000 GPs with this edition of MO . The aim is to promote sustainable levels of population growth and resource consumption. Mr Smith has been a vocal advocate for a more sustainable approach to population growth, rather than the “Big Australia” vision touted by former prime minister Kevin Rudd. He praised doctors for taking ...