>> How do you propose reducing the number of people in the UK?
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Quite difficult, I suggest. First you need to have an electorate that agrees with that idea. Secondly, a government that wishes, and has the political motivation to reduce the population.
I think that in practice reducing the population would be very difficult, it would be quite hard enough to hold the population constant.
But, let us say we are going to try.
We would need a series of incentives to couples to have no more than one, or at the most two children. Financial inducements to stop at one. Massive penalties for couples having more than two children.
How draconian do you want to get? What would be acceptable to the electorate?
China struggled and, I think, gave up, so what chance have we got? However I do believe that long term, this is going to be a major problem for the world.
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