Re: Are we really Overpopulated?
Originally Posted by
TessA
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I' ve been saying for a long time that we need more children, every time we have a thread on people having more than two or somesuch subject.
We need to get to a point where there are enough younger people to work, pay taxes and provide care for us oldies, if we keep living longer.
It is already evident that we have to borrow workers from elsewhere because we haven't enough home-grown workers.
As for land, there's empty spaces everywhere if you go travelling on trains and motorways you'll see loads of it, mostly owned by a few wealthy people.
I think the problem is sharing land and wealth.
Some people hoard both.
The way things are going we will have, in this country, lots of graduates with no jobs and lots of lower paid jobs that won't get filled unless we get workers from elsewhere.
We need more towns to be built together with the infrastructure, properly planned so there's little impact on the planet, flooding, pollution etc.
Get some engineers from Japan to sort out our transport or send our graduates there to learn from them. That would be a start.
Good post TessA....
Trouble is, that some posters have taken it to the extreme....
As the clip suggested, society has become 'Top Heavy' with so many more people in the autumn of their lives and not enough people in the spring....
Most developed countries are not producing enough children to simply sustain their communities, and by suggesting that we would compound the problem by having more children, just look around, those people have to come from somewhere, and we are importing adults to do what our children should be doing. But they are coming here as adults, and will grow older faster than newborns...
We have upset the delicate balance of society and it will not be easy to restore it, and we seem to be alternating between one crackpot idea to another in the hope of finding a solution.
Because most of the population has been corralled into towns and cities we are experiencing the illusion of being overpopulated. Notice how the countryside is being evacuated... I've noticed in my lifetime where there were once many farms around the countryside, but now they have all been bought out by large consortiums and worked by contractors based in the cities. Farming villages are now tourist attractions, B&B's or holiday cottages for some rich person living in the city.
There is no work for country dwellers anymore and they are being forced into towns and cities to look for work. Villages are being swallowed up by towns, and towns are becoming cities to add to the overpopulated feel of the world. How many people can say that there is not a major house building project going on near them?
Just drive out into the country and look at the space, even in the so called overpopulated UK. And just think of how many other countries far bigger than the UK have thousands of miles of empty space.