The Sydney premiere of Dick Smith’s documentary The Population Puzzle took place on Tuesday August 10 at the Chauvel cinema in Paddington.

Dick Smith and his family, including his wife and two daughters were there, as was the Director Simon Nasht, and many members of the crew.

Following the film a lively debate ensued with filmmakers, politicians and members of the Australian Population Party all contributing to the discussion with Dick and Simon.

To see what happened at the event, check out the photos below.

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Until about a year ago, I had never thought about the population issue.  It simply wasn’t in my realm of thinking.  However, one thing which gives me a little bit of solace is that most of my friends were the same.

In September 2009, my youngest daughter, Jenny, phoned me and said, “dad, they are all talking about human induced climate change, and they’re all going off to Copenhagen.  Why don’t they talk about the ‘elephant in the room’”.  I said, “Jenny, what’s that?”.  She said, “population!”.

The instant she said the word, it was almost as if a light was turned on in my head.  Within seconds I realised how stupid I had been.  Here we were talking about problems which are facing our planet, but people weren’t talking about the most obvious problem – too many people.  I knew that we had something like 6.7 billion people in the world, and this was predicted to go to over 9 billion by 2050.  But I’d never actually linked that with a great many of the problems we have in our world. continue reading

HERE is a link to a page on Sustainable Population Australia’s (SPA) website with some beaut quotes on population.