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...different negative scenarios. one, unchecked development and consumption devastate the country's habitat, native species and quality of life. In the other, Australia's economy grinds to halt as the populace ages and babies become unaffordable burdens. Both pictures suggest a population crisis begging to be resolved.

With 19.8 million people contained in an area roughly the size of the contiguous 48 states, Australia may seem drastically underpopulated to the 285 million residents of the U.S. But much of Australia's land is arid and virtually uninhabitable, subject to frequent floods and droughts. Nearly all Australians are packed into two coastal strips, in the southwest around Perth and in the east and particularly the southeast, near Sydney and Melbourne....

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