“Population boom to choke city, says Monash experts”, The Age, 6/3. PM John Brumby’s plans for Melbourne’s expansion get well-deserved criticism from university experts – but the focus is still on coping with population growth rather than restricting it in the first place.
My second letter to a newspaper this week got published! In today’s Herald-Sun (they don’t have an online letters page, unfortunately). The letter was titled by the editor:
Reduce the population
Reducing population growth and thus the demand for housing is an obvious solution that politicians such as Mr. Brumby seem reluctant to acknowledge.
They are obsessed with “growth”, no matter what the environmental cost.
I am dismayed at seeing what has made Melbourne a liveable city – its open spaces and low urban density – relentlessly destroyed.
