Name: CHAN, Sin Fong
Subject: Wake up Australia, Grow up Australia
Visit Time: 1/6/2011 at 10:00 PM (Not published)
Remark:
Australia at present is like a cup cake, and obviously can't feed many people. However, Australia has plenty of ingredients to bake a cake bigger than any recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. With a bigger cake, more people can share our generosity.
On 12 October 1492, Columbus discovered the New World (USA), and in 1606 Willem Janszoon made the first recorded European landing on the Australian continent. The difference is 114 years.
The population of USA and Australia is about 311.6 million and 22.7 million respectively, that is to say USA has a population about 13.7 times of Australia. To reach 311.6 million, Australia population will have to grow by 1% compounding each year for 263.25 years or by 2% compounding each year for 132.27 years.
We are far too inward looking, selfish and unimaginative; we are just as irresponsive and non-adaptive as the dinosaurs which became extinct when climatic conditions became unfavourable.
Wake up Australia, grow up Australia!
Subject: Wake up Australia, Grow up Australia
Visit Time: 1/6/2011 at 10:00 PM (Not published)
Remark:
Australia at present is like a cup cake, and obviously can't feed many people. However, Australia has plenty of ingredients to bake a cake bigger than any recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. With a bigger cake, more people can share our generosity.
On 12 October 1492, Columbus discovered the New World (USA), and in 1606 Willem Janszoon made the first recorded European landing on the Australian continent. The difference is 114 years.
The population of USA and Australia is about 311.6 million and 22.7 million respectively, that is to say USA has a population about 13.7 times of Australia. To reach 311.6 million, Australia population will have to grow by 1% compounding each year for 263.25 years or by 2% compounding each year for 132.27 years.
We are far too inward looking, selfish and unimaginative; we are just as irresponsive and non-adaptive as the dinosaurs which became extinct when climatic conditions became unfavourable.
Wake up Australia, grow up Australia!
