Yeah but the western world is already only reproducing enough to replenish current populations. The third world is breeding out of control and you want to bring them here? How does this solve the problem?
Our existence as homosapian occupants of the earth extends beyond the 'Western World". Are you suggesting that the "Third World' is a different species, and something that we should have no regard for, being that they are merely savages ?!
And to requote (with specifics):
the western world is already only reproducing enough to replenish current populations.
Of where? The 'Western World' ? Mark, let's look at Sydney's infrastructure as an example. Despite new motorways that have popped up over the past 20 years, the roads are becoming more congested. The rail network is running at absolute full capacity & regularity for what the network can support, and people are still squeezing into the train at Central station to the Nth Shore in morning peak hour (just one example) like starving animals picking up the scent of a lamb carcass. I worked on the Nth Shore for a while about eight years ago, then again about three years ago, and there is a very clear increase in the number of people commuting, and the barbaric behavior that constitutes 'survival' amongst those who simply must catch that train.
Now, we can suggest that, in a five year space of time, that the increased number of people on the trains is due to new citizens from abroad. Or, if you observe a little more, you might just find that it's to do with a whole new generation of workers in their late teens, early '20's who are entering the workforce, thus burdening a transport system that cannot cope anymore. Should they drive to work ? No, because the roads have become just as bad during peak-hour.
So if we strap ourselves into the time machine, and look not too far into the future, perhaps 15 years from now, when the kids of a 'government bonus' generation reach an age that they too want a job in the city or the north shore, we need to ask how the infrastructure will handle it. Presently, the trasport systems are in the hands of state government, and they don't have a viable solution. Federal government funding won't make a difference either, until there's some serious cash injected into it. What that means is offering homeowners on the perifery if train lines, arterial roads etc a huge sum of money, above market value, to allow their homes to be sold so they can be torn down to make way for more train lines, more roads. And being that these areas are very built up, pretty much from Parramatta right up to Redfern, that's going to cost billions. Just the stretch of train line between Stanmore & Newtwon would cost millions upon millions. The closer you get to the city, the more the properties are worth.
I have an answer to this dillema, but I'll save it for another time.
Major Corporations (and the ******* banks) are making record profits in Australia, and don't be fooled by those that say "oh, we made a loss" because they have only made a loss by comparison to their budget projections a year prior. This country is not struggling, the public coffers arent suffering (if we look at gross income - before ridiculous fiscal wastage), and there's no underpopulation crisis at all- even if we are to be blinkered enough to think that the world starts & ends in Australia, the Us & Europe.
So, um, what was that about replenishing population ? Is that really a good idea ?
