As long as there are hills in the UK on which you can find yourself to be
alone without seeing anybody, then the optimum level has not been reached.
To me the recurrence of the population scare (or bomb) very much sounds
like the rich man's fear to loose out on his acquired space, lifestyle, and
privilege. It's a new insight in the psychology of Western decadence. It
often sounds a bit like "all imported cars pollute and locally produced
ones are clean". Let's widen the view a bit more.
OPT is a charity. To be more charitable it could make itself useful to
study the situation in Bangla Desh, a country which is 4.4 times more
populated than the UK, which is often subject to flooding, is now at
severely under threat from sea level rising, it has variable harvests and
weather patterns, it enjoys generally a low irregular income for most of
its population, it has poor infrastructure and also high degrees of
urbanisation.
Despite this cumulation of precarities its population grows and continues
to grow (despite Malthusian teachings on populations correcting themselves
via famine and vice).
Could this be because the maximum level of a sustainable population has not
yet been reached here?
Or have the means available to sustain itself changed so much in favour of
a higher population density?
Surely, OPT's expertise is much wanted here !
I am curious to hear its views.
Folkert van Galen
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