Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus "baby levy"

[GMantis]

A proposal that manages to combine a softening of the brain with a hardening of the heart. The emission of CO₂ by humans is insignificant and  as the article shows families with more children are more energy efficient
And why should such a sparsely populated country adopt population control?

[GMantis]

And why should such a sparsely populated country adopt population control?

The lack of water, maybe? Unless they can design humans that don't require water consumption...

As far as I know, most settlement is in areas which have an abundant supply of water and even there the population density is rather low. The central deserts are pretty much uninhabited.