As a country we're still fewer than the population of a lot of global cites, but unfortunately for the environment, to survive we also need heat 10 months a yea

As a country we're still fewer than the population of a lot of global cites, but unfortunately for the environment, to survive we also need heat 10 months a year and air conditioning for the other 3, the distances between our major cities are further than most world capitals from one another, and our labour costs are relatively astronomical to everywhere else on earth. We have no new nuclear projects underway for energy needs, which will be interesting. Our country still runs mainly on resource wealth, making democracy pretty much unnecessary for a government to fund itself so long as it can use those resources to pay to secure it. The resource wealth means the government will spend most of its time managing economic Dutch Disease problems that will undermine actual organic economic growth. I get that the strategy is to make it a technologically enabled new-world planned society and economy using stakeholder capitalism, (where the stakeholders appear to be represented mainly by the WEF, but whatever), and you essentially need to make sure people with obsolete values and ensconced interests don't stand in the way of it to be able to implement that - but I think this rapid population rise is a harbinger for harder times in the near term. In the long term we're all dead, so it's hard to be enthusiastic about it.