• @scholar
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    123 days ago

    The urban area is 80 miles across

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      223 days ago

      Where do you suggest all the people go?

      Are you really anti urban or are you anti people?

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        22 days ago

        I’m anti so many people that you need a dense urban area 80 miles across to fit them all *edit on looking it up it’s not all that dense, it’s just a big sprawling city

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            022 days ago

            Implement proper demography and population growth schemes so that you don’t end up with so many people in the first place, manage your population distribution on a national level so as not to overwhelm the natural resources of any one area, build walkable communities with a variety of density to suit peoples differing needs

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              222 days ago

              So you propose a population control scheme where people won’t be allowed to have children unless allowed by the government or some kind of max cap of children per parent?

              The government should also relocate people or forbidd them to have children unless they move?

              Isn’t it honestly best to have very dense areas so that the real natural resources (which I assume you mean trees and shit) are untouched.

              I don’t see what walkable communities have anything to do with this. Dense urban areas are usually the most walkable areas.

              Most cities if not all cities aren’t equally dense everywhere so we can check that.

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                122 days ago
                1. One-child policies have been sucessful in China and India, disincentivising large families doesn’t need to include banning people from having kids

                2. No, the government should encourage busineses to disperse throughout the country and build affordable housing in multiple smaller cities

                3. Again, no. Nature can only cope with a certain amount of foot traffic, the natural areas surrounding a city will survive better with fewer people

                4. Tokyo is over 80 miles across. It takes over an hour to drive from one side to the other on the motorway It also isn’t particularly dense; it has a lower population density than London or Madrid. It’s just big.

                Going back to the original post, compare the Shire to Mordor. If you had as many hobbits as you had orcs they wouldn’t all fit in the shire (without building highrises). Their low density village centric way of life only works because there aren’t very many of them.

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                  022 days ago

                  china literally had to end their one child policy because it was causing shitloads of issues and killing the country.

                  Do you want japan to make parents kill their daughters? that’s what happens with one child policies.

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                    122 days ago

                    China ended their one child policy because it had succeeded. Parents killing their daughters was a cultural issue particularly in rural farming communities who depended on their sons for labour. We can’t uncritically assume that any given implementation of a childbirth disincentivisation policy will lead to infanticide.