Articles for Our Population

Housing is Australia's multi-billion-dollar money maker — if you're selling
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Housing is Australia's multi-billion-dollar money maker — if you're selling

ABC  

Australia's housing market is creating wealth like never before. According to CoreLogic's recent quarterly Pain and Gain Report, Australia's property owners pocketed a record-breaking median nominal profit of $285,000 from resales in the June quarter of this year. It says the record-breaking gains home owners made from selling their properties was partly a result of national housing values hitting fresh …

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Pavan K. Varma | Our inequality is inherited, curable only by solid policy
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Pavan K. Varma | Our inequality is inherited, curable only by solid policy

Deccan Chronicle  

Sam Pitroda’s comments on inheritance tax were unwarranted and unnecessary, and the BJP is, predictably, using it to maximum advantage. The middle class takes pride that India has today the third largest number of dollar billionaires in the world, but it overlooks the fact that about 60 per cent of our population — or roughly one billion people — lives …

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HT Archives: Keeping the Green Revolution green
1 year, 2 months ago

HT Archives: Keeping the Green Revolution green

Hindustan Times  

Punjab took the lead because of the scientific and educational help given by the Punjab Agricultural University and the presence of essential pre-requisites The term Green Revolution was coined by Dr William Gadd of USA in 1968, when our farmers brought about a quantum jump in wheat production by taking to semi-dwarf, non-lodging varieties with peat enthusiasm and when similar …

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The extreme heat in Phoenix is withering some of its famed saguaro cactuses, with no end in sight
1 year, 4 months ago

The extreme heat in Phoenix is withering some of its famed saguaro cactuses, with no end in sight

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — After recording the warmest monthly average temperature for any U.S. city ever in July, Phoenix climbed back up to dangerously high temperatures Wednesday. These saguaros, a towering trademark of the Sonoran Desert landscape, were already stressed from record-breaking heat three years ago, and this summer’s historic heat — the average temperature in Phoenix last month was 102.7 degrees …

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How many people can Earth handle?
2 years, 3 months ago

How many people can Earth handle?

BBC  

How many people can Earth handle? Fast-forward 74,000 years and our once-obscure species of hairless ape has undergone a population explosion, colonising nearly every habitat on the planet and exerting our influence on even the remotest corners – in 2018, scientists found a plastic bag 10,898m below the ocean's surface at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, while another team …

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Teleradiology’s role in access to primary health care
2 years, 5 months ago

Teleradiology’s role in access to primary health care

Hindustan Times  

The recent pandemic has revealed two fundamental truths about health care. The challenge before our country, given the size of our population, has been how to simultaneously provide basic primary health care for all as well as deliver tertiary care at a level that our population needs and deserves, and that our highly competent physicians are capable of providing. The …

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'Our population expanding like mouth of Sursa': Giriraj makes fresh pitch for stringent population law
2 years, 5 months ago

'Our population expanding like mouth of Sursa': Giriraj makes fresh pitch for stringent population law

Firstpost  

“…Our population is expanding like the mouth of Sursa. The perverse mindset out of which one person sires 10 children can not be allowed,” Giriraj Singh fumed. Patna: Union minister Giriraj Singh on Monday compared the population of the country to the ever-expanding mouth of mythical female demon “Sursa”, in a fresh pitch for a stringent law to control it. …

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