Population boom risks starvation - Dick Smith From: AAP January...

Population boom risks starvation - Dick Smith From: AAP January 24, 2010 11:46PM Increase Text SizeDecrease Text SizePrintEmail Share
Add to DiggAdd to del.icio.usAdd to FacebookAdd to KwoffAdd to MyspaceAdd to NewsvineWhat are these? Australia is becoming too crowded for some. Picture: Cameron Richardson Source: news.com.au
Dick Smith speaks out on population
Says increase is not what Aussies want
Foresees Australia running out of food
PLANS to massively boost Australia's population are a bad idea and must be stopped, entrepreneur Dick Smith says.
'The Federal Government favours a "big Australia'' and wants to increase the country's headcount from 22 million to 35 million by 2050, largely by immigration.

But Mr Smith said this was ridiculous.

"We need to do something about this incredible increase,'' he said at an Australian of the Year dinner in Parliament House today.

"No one is allowed to talk about it ... I am.''

Mr Smith said Australia did not have enough water or food to support millions more people.

It was crazy that seawater was being desalinated for drinking water to supply a booming population.

"I believe in 100 years time people in Australia will be starving to death.''

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