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IQ Squared Debate: If we populate, we will perish

Steve Keen August 25, 2011 Steve Keen's Debt Watch

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I took part in an “IQ Squared” debate with that title, on the affirmative side. The title is a play on a favourite saying of Australian politicians back in the country’s “White Australia” days, and the immigration surge it caused ironically led to Australia becoming one of the world’s most multi-cultural nations. My speech, which ...

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I took part in an “IQ Squared” debate with that title, on the affirmative side. The title is a play on a favourite saying of Australian politicians back in the country’s “White Australia” days, and the immigration surge it caused ironically led to Australia becoming one of the world’s most multi-cultural nations.



My speech, which focuses on the “Human Ecological Footprint” measure of the impact humanity has on the biosphere, starts at the 40:40 mark. Other speakers are Australian businessman and philanthropist Dick Smith and Australian Greens Senator Larissa Waters (on the affirmative side), and ex ALP Premier of Queensland Wayne Goss, Jesuit Priest Father Frank Brennan, and psychiatrist and journalist Dr Tanveer Ahmed (on the opposition). Geraldine Doogue of the ABC chaired the debate.



This video was downloaded from the ABC Big Ideas site:



http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2011/08/23/3299095.htm



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Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.
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