#population cap

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Dutch Government Proposes Strict 20M Population Cap by 2050 Amid Immigration Crackdown

The proposals would involve a move away from mass immigration and encourage longer hours and later retirement for the indigenous Dutch.

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The Risks of Capping Switzerland's Population Growth

It‘s not very often that a country‘s population has a say on the maximum number of people which are allowed to call themselves its residents. But on 14 June in Switzerland 5.6 million citizens over the age of 18 out of currently 9.1 million inhabitants get the chance to have their say as to whether the population should be capped at 10 million people. In places like United States, New Zealand,…

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Switzerland to vote on proposal to cap population at 10 million

Switzerland will vote on capping its population at 10 million by 2050, a right-wing Swiss People's Party plan that pits immigration limits a

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Interesting look at a bet over resources. As someone in the tech field with an interest in both fields, I can’t help but think they were both right.

Humans will stretch resources, adapt, and be able to push the population capacity of this planet upward. However, thermodynamics also tells us that usable resources are finite and cannot be infinitely recycled. And the external energy input to the planet (the Sun) can only supply energy at a fixed rate, so there is an upper limit to what we can harvest that way.

There is a limit where new technologies will not provide enough extra capacity, but there’s plenty of wiggle room to argue over how close to that hard limit we actually are. And how close we want to be.