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Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan
I completely agree the earth is overpopulated. We currently consume more resources than the earth can replenish every year, and we reach that point around June of every year.
China has 2 billion people and approximately the same landmass as the US. China is the second-largest economy in the world - most are predicting it soon to be the largest.
China has 1.4B citizens, the US has 300M citizens.
300M more immigrants would bring more consumers, more workers more taxpayers, more of everything.
Economic immigration to Australia has produced net economic benefits in terms of helping to offset population aging, contributing to higher levels of GDP growth per capita, and improving labor productivity. The same is true in almost every country with large numbers of migrants.
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WE agree that world population IS too HIGH. I agree that Australia increased its GNP with MORE immigrants. GNP is NOT some GOD. It is, in fact, a very DUMB yardstick to measure HUMAN society with. I would suggest that QUALITY of LIFE would be MUCH better! A simple example........the US has had GNP increase recently, yet CV has messed around with many people's Quality of Life. Another example.......for the last 10 or many more years GNP has increased - yet people are having fewer children partly because they say "the next generation will be less "well off" than our current one. Less "well off" equates to Quality of Life, not GNP. GNP is like a FALSE GOD cooked up by Wall Street and ad agencies as a SUBSTITUTE for HUMAN HAPPINESS! Just be aware of that.