Are "the powers that be" about to wake up.

I heard Nicholas Soames talking on radio about the proposal he and Frank Field had come up with. A sensible approach but IMHO, it would be virtually impossible to implement.

However, at some point, the population will have to be stabilised because the need to build seven new cities the size of Birmingham to accommodate the population predicted for 20031 is a sobering thought. And don't forget that rising sea levels will make many areas of the UK untenable by then. Oh, and where will the food come from?

Forget about asteroids and Large Hadron Colliders, overpopulation is the greatest threat to humankind.

 

I'd even suggest you could add the so called "climate change" to that as well Flinty.

If WORLD population isn't stabilised or preferrably reduced, then nothing else is going to matter much.

Caj, I dont know where this Super Mod thing come from, honestly.
I think someone has pushed a wrong button somewhere.
But as you say, you find you can get by on less than £7.50PH, so thats good, I guess we do all expect too much these days.

Clueless, I wasn't having a swipe at farmers, just saying how it is.
A similar thing is now happening in the construction industry.

02, I know the supermarkets are not good payers, I think they work on the priciple that most of their workers have two wage packets coming in, which is not right.

 

Forgot to say shiney, pensions are far too low, eveyone who has completed the course should get a decent liveable pension, its what we pay in for.

To now say that, if you want a proper pension you will have to pay privately for it is a cop out.

We pay for pension and NHS, and then they say we need to pay privately as well.

 

Dee, you KNOW what I'm like on computers ( they're clever spanners, too clever for a bear of little brain).
Clueless, if the farmers can't afford to pay more then they have to raise their prices. It's called capitalism.
All the Rent-a-Poles are going home, they've made their money and are going back to buy their homes, (well done them).
If our farmers can hang on they will get the prices they deserve. As fuel costs rise and the countries that export their food to us need it to feed their own populations then their prices will rise. It's just a case of our farmers hanging in there. But it is still irritating to me, (as a low paid worker) that my taxes are being used to subsidise large companies so that they can pay low wages.

 

Try and get hold of "Billenium", a 1961 short story by J G Ballard. The most chilling story you'll ever read.....