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> Almost one in three children born last year were delivered by mothers born outside of the UK. The number of births by women born outside the UK rose 3,600 yea
by bArray 3y ago
> Almost one in three children born last year were delivered by mothers born outside of the UK. The number of births by women born outside the UK rose 3,600 year-on-year to account for 30.3pc of all births. The previous peak was 29.3pc in 2020.
And yet the population growth of the UK continues to rise steadily [1], where the UK needs to produce at least 300k homes per year for the next 10 years to meet demand (an impossible order). I can't see how so much construction and infrastructure is 'good for the planet'.
The only thing the UK has done is 'outsource' child births. It's like getting fuel synthesised in China and claiming your product is clean because no emissions were generated on home soil in it's creation, also forgetting it generates most of its emissions during its working life.
I don't see there is anything to be celebrated here. Sarah Harper's point about overconsumption reduction appears to be false.
[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/uk-population/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/uk-population...