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Uk Population
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According to the Daily Express, the UK population is set to rocket to 70 million. What are you thoughts on this please?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The village where I live has just had 50 houses completed on the north side, 50 on the south side, and they've just started the groundworks for another 90 on the west side. Add to this assorted houses here there and everywhere (the assumption seems to be that approval will be given for every application), including two in the car park of the garden centre! Similar building in other nearby villages, and, oh yes, 2,500 houses soon to be built as one of the so-called 'garden villages' on an airfield 2 miles away. It will no doubt get worse as we approach 70 million and beyond - unsustainable
I think it was last year the population of London finally passed the level it was after WW2.
I suppose old people could stop living to 100 and putting a strain on the NHS, but that's one of the big reasons that numbers are rising.
As for the new homes being built - in the old days they would have housed whole families with half a dozen kids or more and maybe some elderly parents. Now they're just as likely to hold only one or two people. And everyone wants to own their own. A lot of this is brought about by social change.
I suppose old people could stop living to 100 and putting a strain on the NHS, but that's one of the big reasons that numbers are rising.
As for the new homes being built - in the old days they would have housed whole families with half a dozen kids or more and maybe some elderly parents. Now they're just as likely to hold only one or two people. And everyone wants to own their own. A lot of this is brought about by social change.
It's not just the UK. The world's population is rapidly approaching the limit of how many the Earth can sustain.
2/3 rds of the world's surface is ocean, a large % of the rest is too hot, too cold or too dry, too mountainous to sustain life. What remains has to provide space for housing and space to grow crops for food.
Ever extra house and person takes up space that could be used to grow crops , so it cuts both ways. The increasing population needs more space to live in but also needs more space to grow food.
2/3 rds of the world's surface is ocean, a large % of the rest is too hot, too cold or too dry, too mountainous to sustain life. What remains has to provide space for housing and space to grow crops for food.
Ever extra house and person takes up space that could be used to grow crops , so it cuts both ways. The increasing population needs more space to live in but also needs more space to grow food.
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It is generally agreed that the maximum number of people the Earth can support is 10 Billion. We are already past the 7 Billion mark and many estimate that we will be over the 10 Billion mark within 30 years!
It is generally agreed that the maximum number of people the Earth can support is 10 Billion. We are already past the 7 Billion mark and many estimate that we will be over the 10 Billion mark within 30 years!
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This question is far wider than just the UK. As I said the problem is the world's population which is rapidly nearing the maximum level it is possible to sustain. The UK would be in a sorry state if we could not import food, we can not possibly grow enough here on our own soil to feed our population. The rest of the world will soon be going the same way, there will come a time when other nations refuse to export food because they need it to feed their own people!
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