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有句笑话，要想富，少生孩子多种树。澳洲可持续人口发展组织现在提出，要想保护好环境，澳洲就应该推行独生子女政策。
该组织负责人表示，澳洲人口必须从现有的2200万减少到7百万，来抵制环境恶化的脚步。
这个组织甚至考虑向联合国发出这个提议，并打算参加今年12月在丹麦哥本哈根举行的全球环境保护峰会。
组织负责人Sandra Kanck，表示生太多的孩子等于自取灭亡。她还建议澳洲应该取消婴儿补贴，限制带薪产假和试管婴儿等来反对人们生育更多的孩子。不过她倒是没有表示澳洲应该拒绝接纳新移民。
上周中国一学者在访问澳大利亚时说，中国的独生子女政策避免了3亿人口的出生，在保护环境方面做出很大贡献。
Slash population to save the world: green lobbyist
http://www.theage.com.au/national/slash-population-to-save-the-world-green-lobbyist-20090421-adz4.html
April 21, 2009 - 8:00PM
Australia should consider having a one-child policy to protect the planet, an environmental lobby group says.
Sustainable Population Australia says slashing the world's population is the only way to avoid "environmental suicide".
National president Sandra Kanck wants Australia's population of almost 22 million reduced to seven million to tackle climate change.
And restricting each couple to one baby, as China does, is "one way of assisting to reduce the population".
"It's something we need to throw into the mix," the former Democrats parliamentarian told AAP.
More people means more coal-fired electricity, cars, houses, water use and food production, all of which increase greenhouse gas emissions, she said.
Ms Kanck, who has one child herself, expects her campaign will receive a hostile reaction.
"The Catholic church is going to be in like Flynn on an argument like this."
Sustainable Population Australia, which has about 1300 members, is so worried about climate change it is preparing a formal submission to the United Nations.
It has also applied to attend high-profile world climate talks in Copenhagen in December.
Australia's population has been increasing steadily and the Federal Government plans to continue the trend, largely through immigration.
The world's population stands at 6.7 billion, according to the US Census Bureau.
"Increasing the population is basically suicide, it's environmental suicide, it's utterly irresponsible," Ms Kanck said.
"We are eating away at the planet, we are eating into all the resources, be it petrol, be it superphosphate, be it clear air."
Ms Kanck also suggested Australia scrap the baby bonus, and restrict paid maternity leave and IVF to the first baby only, to discourage large families.
She did not suggest restrictions to immigration, saying Australia should take responsibility for cutting its own population instead of barring entry to others.
China introduced its one-child policy in 1979.
A Chinese academic visiting Canberra last week said the policy had avoided 300 million births and had therefore made a major contribution to the fight against climate change.
AAP
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