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SuzyMcHale.com - a personal site

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Suzy McHale’s personal site. My name is Suzanne (Suzy) McHale; I was born in 1970, am female and I live in Melbourne, Australia. This is my personal domain; a place for my interests and writings, and to leave some evidence of my otherwise-obscure existence. The most frequently-updated section (latest entry: 1/9/2016. Samples of my art and writing. Contains a few of my opinions on various issues, which may or may not be agreeable. Everything else, including information about my site. But they are also so ...

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Populate and Perish: November 2013

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Overpopulation – the human plague. Some recent letters concerning population growth projections in Australia (see my previous entry):. Growing out of control. Australia’s rapid population growth has had some media attention again in the last couple of months. As reported in the Herald-Sun. 25/9, Melbourne is the fastest-growing capital city and the downside of this is all too apparent:. MELBOURNE’S population is booming, with 1350 people moving in each week, a government report says. A report released by...

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Populate and Perish: Collected letters

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Overpopulation – the human plague. Some recent letters concerning population growth projections in Australia (see my previous entry):. The Victorian State of the Environment Report (2008) reveals that population growth and human activity have had ongoing detrimental effects on soils, coastal areas, marine and river systems, climate and biodiversity. All indications are that Victoria has reached the limit of its capacity to support human populations without irreversible environmental destruction. A coalit...

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Populate and Perish: One-child no longer

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Overpopulation – the human plague. As part of a social reform initiative announced last week, China is to “relax” its one-child policy. There have been exceptions to it for years for certain groups, but this makes it officially-approved. Naturally my reaction was dismay (“the environment is now f*cked”). The policy has been criticized by some for being inhumane, but it somewhat it at least kept the country’s already-huge population from becoming even larger. View my complete profile. We) Can Do Better.

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Populate and Perish: September 2013

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Overpopulation – the human plague. I recently came across a link to a short story by Gregory Benford,. Given my outlook you can safely guess I didn’t see this scheme as a bad thing. I suppose that measures such as IVF from stored embryos, cloning and artificial wombs could be used to get around the virus, but the last two technologies are not developed and the first can be difficult to achieve. Melbourne most livable (again). Melbourne was voted most livable for this year. I dislike this sort of publicit...

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Populate and Perish: A sterilizing virus

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Overpopulation – the human plague. I recently came across a link to a short story by Gregory Benford,. Given my outlook you can safely guess I didn’t see this scheme as a bad thing. I suppose that measures such as IVF from stored embryos, cloning and artificial wombs could be used to get around the virus, but the last two technologies are not developed and the first can be difficult to achieve. I live in Australia. My blogs reflect some of my interests and concerns. View my complete profile. Stable Popul...

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Populate and Perish: Melbourne most livable (again)

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Overpopulation – the human plague. Melbourne most livable (again). Melbourne was voted most livable for this year. Again for health care, education and infrastructure. Which bemused many, including me, as there is much to be improved in all these areas. It is certainly a better place to live than many other cities, but far from perfect. Which is dismayingly obvious to anyone who has lived here for a while – infrastructure is not coping with the influx. With a rapidly growing population squeezing into roa...

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Populate and Perish: 23 million and counting

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Overpopulation – the human plague. 23 million and counting. Australia’s population officially. Reached 23 million on 23 April. A milestone that was generally reported positively. The population is small compared to many other countries (as is pointed out with tedious regularity), but Australia does not have a great amount of habitable land, so most of the population tends to live along the coastline, and much of that is clumped into the major cities. Greater Dandenong Council has given VicRoads the go-ah...

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Populate and Perish: April 2014

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Overpopulation – the human plague. Melbourne on the path to ruin. Haven’t written for a while, though there have been quite a few articles on population issues; I feel disheartened that nothing ever seems to change regarding the problems faced, and that governments and business remain in denial of overpopulation’s negative effects. 8220; Fast-growing Melbourne heading towards becoming Australia’s largest city. From overseas and interstate. 8220; Mumbai: Bright lights, tight city. 8221;, The Age. It is ob...