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Originally Posted by jammies
Ah, but if the UK population already *was* 30 million, they'd be calling for 15. "Sustainable" is a chimera, nothing stays in stasis, especially when humans and their ingenuity are involved.
The best strategy is to maximize productivity by increasing efficiency and reducing environmental impact thru technology. Further, any other strategy can and will be obsoleted by that same technology - as long as you don't pursue some extremely dumb strategy, like, say, trying to halve your population.
Not to say that we shouldn't be striving to reduce our damage to the environment now, but economically many advanced nations are already in trouble because the population is not being replaced and only immigration stops a demographic disaster.
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I stopped reading when I saw that your post wasn't about zombies.
Seriously, you're probably right--but the UK may be a special case, being an island nation, and being unbelievably densely populated for a developed country which produces only scarce resources of its own. However, my feeling is that either 60 million people find a way to live there sustainably or the population finds a way to get smaller, perhaps through migration to the continent or some other non-disastrous means.
Or, you know... zombies.