overloading australia: 23 million the limit?, page-3

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    Can Australia sustain more than 23 million people?


    From the article,

    Tim Flannery has suggested that, granted the rate at which we are losing soil, Australia's safe carrying capacity in the long term may be as low as 8 to 12 million people. As he points out, humans are extremely long-lived mammals. Population growth, like herpes, is easily acquired but very hard to lose.

 
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