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According to the Optimum Population Trust Projected population by 2051 wil be 77.23 million, an increase of 16 million people from 2007\08. We have grown by more than 20% in population since 1950... |
Nigeria has a population of 144 million, projected to be 281 million by 2050. Britains growth is trivial by comparison.
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...How long will it be before this country becomes one of your poor overcrowded countries? We need to look after the space we have because the UK can only sustain a certain population. ..
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I think we can last an awful lot longer than most of our neighbours!
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...The UK has a landmass of 241,590 sq km which equates to 256 people per sq km. GDP £1.1 trillion
Lets take Nigeria (as in the OP first post) covers an area of 911,000 sq km with a population of 135,000,000 this is 148 people per sq km, not so crowded now compared to the UK. GDP £100 billion
Yes the countries we talk about may be poor, but not so crowded as our own....
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Comparisons based on land area are misleading, as they don't take into account land that is uninhabitable.
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...I dont dispute that some countries are poor in relation to the UK...
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Thank goodness for that - I was beginning to wonder.
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...I dont think we have caused "all" the problems faced by these countries, and we certainly dont continue to do so, because if we did we as a nation would be ostracized by the rest of the world....
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Who said "all"? I said "many". For example: sugar, coffee, tobacco, oil, diamonds, copper, platinum, rhodium, etc. etc. Not to mention land mines, many construction projects, and the World Bank.
The reason we are not "ostracized by the rest of the world" is because our pals have played (and continue to play) the same game.
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...This has nothing to do with Northern Rock or Brown's dinner date with Branson in China. I dont think thats it's me that needs to keep things in "perspective". 
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The OP issue was spending public money.
We live in a wealthy democratic country. We should behave like responsible adults, not spoiled children.