countries are extremely rich in natural resources, yet the local rich, bureaucrats and politicians are getting mega rich and the poor hardly survive on a dollar a day. 2-The political instability due to various conflicting factors there. The external so called "private investors" and governments ought to play their part in humanitarian and equitable basis when harvesting these. In many cases sadly it is not the reality even in terms of human life. On the subject of "Culture", if there was one thing that I agreed with Mr Howard's stance on this subject, was that migrants coming through normal channels must have reasonable good English language skills to help them interact with the majority Australians and adapt quickly. However some suspected his agenda in this, I give him the benifit of doubt. Damnthematrix : A solution that is sometimes proposed for the dilemma of fossil-fuel decline is a global campaign for the humane implementation of rapid population decline (RPD). With all due respect for the attempt to find a satisfying answer to the question of overpopulation, such a proposal would conflict with the available data on the rate of decline in fossil fuels. The annual rate of population decline, in a civilization in which fossil fuels are the principal source of energy, must roughly equal that annual rate of fossil-fuel decline, which is probably about 6 percent (Hk, Hirsch, & Aleklett, 2009, June). Unfortunately there is no practical humane means of imposing a similar 6 percent annual rate of decline