It surely isn't ideal, but that's kind of how the world works, no? New developments emerge and we adjust our laws to deal with the new situation in a way that

It surely isn't ideal, but that's kind of how the world works, no? New developments emerge and we adjust our laws to deal with the new situation in a way that society sees fit. IMHO voting on something like maximum population density policies is way too abstract of a concept for people to even have an opinion about. If it were the opposite one might think we as humans have some kind of plan going into the future... ;)