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- Fourth Edition - March 2008
This is a document in evolution. It has grown out of the tens of thousands of hours of research that has been invested into the production of the Australian Defence Report since October 2001.
The first edition sought to analyse the range of views being expressed in the Australian public debate in relation to the "War on Terrorism" in the second half of 2002. At that time we found that virtually every point of view could be condensed into one of four major categories.
In the Second publication in July 2005 we “picked the one we liked best” The Population Explosion, and explained why. This edition was then submitted to a number of other organisations such as the Australian Defence Association and the Australian Conservation Foundation together with a polite challenge/request to them to try to find a floor in our logic or to otherwise prove the hypothesis wrong. None of the organisations contacted returned any substantive challenge against the line of argument we had presented.
This third edition in August of 2006 therefore assumed that the basic argument is correct and endeavours to project forward on that assumption.
For those who haven't read the earlier editions, The argument is presented here condensed, but in its entirety.
This fourth edition incorporates a response plan.
Click here to read the main article first - How Far Can You See?
Reading the action plan first, or out of context with the causal statement will result in nothing but confusion.