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04/03/17

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Originally posted by Free will ↑

I will tackle your demographic point first. Yes, we have an ageing population. Yes, we can reduce the ageing profile by bringing in young immigrants. However, those immigrants age and you then have to bring in even more immigrants to offset the ageing. It is a ponzi scheme of ever increasing immigration and exponential population growth to maintain the current ageing profile. So either you accept exponential population growth with the implications for water shortages, congestion, stress, unaffordable house prices etc or you accept we have an ageing population and adjust policy for it.

As to "stagnation", many of us think that green fields and forests are better than concrete jungles, a polluted water table, more traffic etc. Economic growth is only good when it serves the people. It is not good on its own.

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Absolutely Freewill. The notion that we can have infinite growth is false.
Our lives are degraded the more our population increases.
Dave R.
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