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UK's Housing Crisis Needs a London-Sized City to Fix It
- b800h 2y agoOr a negative net migration policy. We can't support our current population with our available agricultural land, and our biodiversity is in crisis. Converting our existing natural environment into farms would be stupid, as would turning farms into cities.
- dave4420 2y agoWe can support maybe half our current population with our available agricultural land. Having to rely on food imports has only been a problem during world wars.
- b800h 2y agoPopulations are rising across the globe and our relative wealth is decreasing to the point where importing food will become as unaffordable as it currently is environmentally deleterious.
- dave4420 2y agoBritain is going down the toilet, but it is not going down the toilet that badly.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoAsk young folks about that. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/30/the-baby-bust-how-britains-falling-birthrate-is-creating-alarm-in-the-economy https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/30/the...
- dave4420 2y agoIt’s quite affordable. The country could pay for it. It keeps choosing not to.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoIndeed, that’s the point. It is a conscious decision.
- jaggs 2y agoBut maybe we could support current populations if we drastically cut waste and inefficiencies? https://www.wwf.org.uk/press-release/hidden-waste-report-shines-light-uk-food-waste https://www.wwf.org.uk/press-release/hidden-waste-report-shi...
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