Re: Immigrants
Originally Posted by
Losos
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There are THREE causes of excess population:-
1) Immigration from outside
2) Huge increase in births per household
3) Increase in average length of life
Of the three right now
No.2 is the major problem.
It is indeed.
However, this differs according to countries and cultures.
African countries have suffered overpopulation for some time because of their high birth rate compared to the resources available to them.
China's population was becoming dangerously high and their authorities' solution was to limit the number of childbirths permissible to each family.
On the other hand, most Western nations' indigenous birth rates have remained fairly constant. In fact some, like Germany, have found their indigenous population's birth rate to be becoming insufficient to maintain their population. Hence Adolf Merkel's infamous invitation to foreigners.
Britain has found that its population is getting out of hand largely due to birth rate, and this mainly of 'certain cultures'.
I'd like to see our government removing all child benefits, and possibly other handouts, to families which choose to have more than two children, just as the Chinese did. It worked for them, anyway.