This is an odd policy to adopt, especially for a nation within Europe.
馃憠馃従 #Switzerland 馃嚚馃嚟 to vote on capping population at 10 million https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-swiss-population-cap-limit-referendum/a-75941387
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@darnell Why? Switzerland is a notoriously hard to naturalise country, promoting labour migration without a path to citizenship seems exploitative. There doesn't seem to be a political will to change Swiss naturalisation law, so this alternative makes a lot of sense to me.
@budududuroiu The fact that citizens were included in the number is what I found to be odd (I should have clarified).
@darnell Sorry: 馃槃 no, its not. Its normal for Europe to protect its citizens from external threads. Its something we expect from our governments!
@schnedan Basically setting a hard population limit reminds me of what China 馃嚚馃嚦 did decades ago. It basically screwed up the demographics of the country & caused an imbalance which they are still recovering from today.
From what I read in the article, the limit included citizens (which I viewed as odd), not just foreigners.
@darnell You must take into account that many European countries are very crowded already - or at least many regions are.
e.g. Switzerland has only a small portion of its area which is suitable for housing, agriculture,... and its already very much used. There is a natural limit. Also due climate change resources especially in the apls will reduce. A lot of energy today comes from glaciers (water power). Also drinking water. But the glaciers will vanish in just in the very near future.
Especially Switzerland will already have a hard time to source water, power,... for the current number of people.
Just not addressing the problem today won't save you from the problems to come.
And there won't be any "technical" solution like "small nuclear reactors" or so.