Hypocrisy at meeting

THE root cause of Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, sinking is an overpopulation of 10 million people that has been using underground freshwater which is now running dry.

A massive sink hole is forming in its place and hence the city is sinking. There is no way to correct this other than to move the capital.

Sadly, it is estimated that if Indonesia lost 200 million people it would still be overpopulated and Indonesia doesn’t even appear on the world’s top 10 most overpopulated countries.

With increased immigration there are several South Pacific countries that have become unsustainably overpopulated which adds to global warming so there was some considerable hypocrisy at the recent meeting on Tuvalu.

I repeat that Australia’s estimated sustainable population is 16 million people.

Currently we have 25 million which is causing considerable problems, not only in our cities, but loss of habitat for our wildlife, to mention just two. Alan Sparks, Bungalow 1915: The last major fighting by Australian

troops takes place at Gallipoli. 1959: Hawaii becomes 50th state of the

United States. 1984: Australia’s federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the first time. 2003: French President Jacques Chirac (above) gives a rare televised speech to address a heatwave that had caused an estimated 10,000 deaths in Europe over the first three weeks of August. 2016: The Olympic Games in Rio end with Australia taking home eight gold medals, with wins in modern pentathlon, rowing, Rugby Sevens, sailing, shooting and swimming. 2018: The Super Retail Group - home to brands such as Rebel Sports, BCF and Super Cheap Auto - admits to underpaying staff by $7.9 million in 2017.