: 23 Dec 2010 10:48:38pm Blessed are they who haven't got a clue what they're missing, and who never know when something is gone by never knowing they ever had it. ;) Frankly, I think the buyer are being seduced beyond their wits, though they still think ants stupid for getting stuck by a honey dew plant, although frequently doing the same thing with ALL of their fiscal tomorrows. Russell : The Other Craig : 23 Dec 2010 1:41:08pm I can't think of any real issue, local or global; economic, social, political, environmental; that should not be addressed in the context of population pressures. Like mice in a silo, there are too many of us, and, like mice in a silo, our days of swarm are numbered. Will it end with sane action, or the decimating mechanisms of evolution? Coolibah : 23 Dec 2010 3:55:42pm T. O. Craig, you are getting close... until in-depth capacity for thinking about complex public issues is nurtured - at home, at school and in the media - in a much wider % of the Aus. population, our democracy's outcomes will continue to fall way short of wisdom, and the manipulation of 'popular will' by politicians, big $$$ and sundry grandstanders will go on. I am not holding my breath. Douglas : 23 Dec 2010 1:09:38pm This is a genuine query. Was there not a Bureau of Population Studies in Canberra that was abolished by the Howard/Costello "razor gang" in 1996? If so, and had