Fill in is not good
you only have to look around the worlds at all the major cities
condensed housing estates, high rise apartment buildings, close dometry type streets have all in the end led to slums,
bad environments and rapid growth in crime, teenage pregnancy and depression,
Humans are pack creatures sure,
But we are also by design wanderers,
Separating us from nature is bad, plenty of open space, trees , brush, bush, rivers, etc,
should be all around us to evoke peace of mind and good healthy living
Put us all in cages, watch murder, rape, and negativity grow, no matter what the income base or luxury base is.
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
Why do WE (in NZ) fix the same bits of road even if they aint broke?..........where towns in NZ (on the east coast) have massively damaged access-ways?
- because its someone's job to do it.
Doesn't matter if your a road worker in Kaikohe or a builder in China. If its your livelyhood to do something stupid, you will do it so long as your paid.
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Unless we have 2 (or more ideally less) child policy, its will be the future for all of us eventually.
Its pretty simple maths, if it takes 2 to tango, and tango = +1 more..well any more than 2 kids and your no longer keeping the population static (i.e. 1 birth = 1 death) your increasing it.
NZ will be what Singapore is now........in about 200 years.
Unless something changes.
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I sense a hint of sarcasm in your post ... How much do office blocks cost to build? How much does the average "office" cost to rent? How much "rent"/$$$ would you get if you sold office units as flats? Fortunately houses have solar and wind power and are self-sufficient enough to not have to import the ingredients for Margaritas... otherwise there might be a slight flaw in your comparison.
Ahhhh the variation and innovation of it all... bet it's too expensive
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
TOP QUOTE: The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money.
...if we could only talk the populace of our clean, green land (tui) who only pull their heads out of their arse to breathe or when there is something for free on offer, to leave it stuck up there for three minutes too long, our problems would be over...nirvana...there would only be a few thousand in the whole land...plenty of housing and firewood then...
Nevermind. I've taken a fancy to this: http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/oasisoftheseas/
Wonder if they've got a wee track around the deck...
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
Well actually Singapore was the positive solution to our population increasing. The alternative is along the same basis as countries like Uganda etc........which is what would happen if NZ doesn't become a business hub and has 30+ Million.
I still would prefer if we stay in the sub-10 mil category though. But at the rate we are importing + breeding, that dream will die in my lifetime.
In any other country I would say that would work. In NZ we don't penalize anyone. Even the crims have it ok.
At the best the NZ govt would produce a pamphlet about overpopulation.
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Actually I don't know if our population is expanding at all. We loose a lot of people to Australia and Britain. Growth is very slight.
As for penalising families who have more than one child - so far as I know China is the only country in the world which does this so its unfair to suggest NZ alone could follow them.
Furthermore its believed that the China one-child policy has failed and isn't spoken of these days. Officially it exists but in reality, province by province it is ignored. The way it works there is if you have a second child, you pay more tax. That is the exact opposite to our Family Support tax relief and similar policies throughout Europe. In our case, the more children you have the less tax you pay.
The way it worked a couple of years ago is that the parents simply didn't admit to having a second child. The villiage cultural ambasidor knew about it, but if he failed to advise head office it didn't affect him. So because the state hadn't registered the second child it didn't exist, no education, healthcare etc etc.
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Just to prove I am not that old.......its happened in my lifetime.
http://www.google.co.nz/publicdata/e...and+population
So it seems we are importing more than we are importing. Probably due to the fact that we have ourselves a little paradise that we are keeping secret about. Thank god we get crappy weather otherwise we would have been pillaged by now.
China is not the best example of a good society, but my experience of being there I was dumbstruck at how fucked they would be if they didn't have such a policy.
But once again the whole 1-child thing would never work unless it;
a) happened everywhere
or (in china's case)
b) you stop/prevent people entering the country from overseas.
But some food for though - if we call keep breeding the bar will be raised, again and again and again..........until no one can afford 400m of land 5km from a big city. Its pretty close to that now.
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