the2real4mafol said:
RedInker said: As long as they come to work then Im not bothered by immigration. With an aging population we need more workers. The UK could easily handle a population of 100 million with proper planning. |
We would have to import so much more food if we had that many people. about 3/4 of the UK is used for farmland already. To have another 40 odd million people we would have to use a decent amount of that farmland for cities unless we started chopping down our remaining forests. Not like it's possible for many of them to go to Scotland, most of it is mountains or lakes. You are right that it is possible with proper planning but i think it would stretch our needs a bit in terms of food, water, energy and services and also put too much pressure on our land.
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I wonder if that's actually true. Food scarcity is pretty much all logisitics.
For example, while the UK imports 40% of its food. It makes 12 Billion pounds a year exporting.
I wouldn't be shocked if the UK could be self sufficent if people ate locally.
It definitly could if the EU called off it's witch hunt on superiorly made crops to hurt eastern and northern europeon agricultural economies.