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Mark Beeson: As Earth's population heads to 10 billion, does anything Australians do on climate change matter?
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Mark Beeson: As Earth's population heads to 10 billion, does anything Australians do on climate change matter?

To be clear, I'm not advocating compulsory population control, here or anywhere. But we do need to consider a future with billions more people, many of them aspiring to live as Australians do now.
Putting homes in high-risk areas is asking too much of firefighters
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Putting homes in high-risk areas is asking too much of firefighters

Land-use planning should give more weight to the increasing risks of natural hazards like bushfires as the first step in reducing the impacts.
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