Imagine Reduced Immigration, I Wonder if You Can… By James Reed

     Here is a good article which I see as supporting in abstract, not by name, the noble Reduce Immigration  Write On Campaign: https://reduceimmigration.wordpress.com/
http://theconversation.com/why-a-population-of-say-15-million-makes-sense-for-australia-78391

     The article is entitled “Why a Population of, Say, 15 Million Makes Sense for Australia.” The article rightly notes that the two major parties accept rapid population growth, and so do the capitalists, the retailers, real estate developers, financial sector and media. They could have added university academics, and the entire new class  here too.

“The growth coalition has no real interest in the cumulative social or environmental downside effects of this growth, nor the actual welfare of the immigrants. They fully expect to capture the profit of this growth program, while the disadvantages, such as traffic congestion, rising house prices and government revenue diverted for infrastructure catch-up, are all socialised – that is, the taxpayer pays.
The leaders of this well-heeled group are well insulated personally from the downsides of growth that the rest of us deal with daily.”
That, they are.

     However, GDP as a genuine measure of growth is inadequate because it ignores costs such as environmental degradation and social distress. The Genuine Progress Indicator, devised by ecological economist Herman Daly, better measures human welfare, and GPI has stagnated since 1970, and is now lower than in the 1960s. Hence, the wellbeing of Australians has declined while all of this population growth has occurred.

“At the peak of GPI in Australia in the mid-1970s our population was under 15 million. Here then, perhaps, is a sensible, optimal population size for Australia operating under the current economic system, since any larger number simply fails to deliver a net benefit to most citizens.
It suggests that we have just had 40 years of unnecessary, ideologically-driven growth at an immense and unjustifiable cost to our natural and social capital. In addition, all indications are that this path is unsustainable.
With Australian female fertility sitting well below replacement level, we can achieve a slow and natural return to a lower population of our choice without any drastic or coercive policies. This can be done simply by winding back the large and expensive program of importing consumers to generate GDP growth – currently around 200,000 people per year and forecast to increase to almost 250,000 by 2020.”

     They do not detail how one could go about fighting this, but the Reduce Immigration Write On is a natural place to start, painless and easy, just the way Aussie like it. We will worry about how to defeat the globalist corporate elites in due course, a perennial problem. Maybe global economic collapse, a new Carrington Event super-storm, or some act of God will give them what they deserve. Rome was not wrecked in a day:
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186805-the-solar-storm-of-2012-that-almost-sent-us-back-to-a-post-apocalyptic-stone-age
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm

     You cannot do much about this, but you can write “Reduce Immigration” on your ballot paper and no-one is even going to know. There will not be an antifa to bash you over the head, or cut you with a knife.