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The population density of either is irrelevant. Singapore has a population of 4.5 million people on just less than 70,000 hectares. It imports almost all it's food. It has no oil. No gas. No coal. No anything except the resourcefullness, intelligence and workethic of it's people. And as such...

How do we allow over-population? Imagine if Kevin Rudd told some African or middle east nation to stop breeding so much? If in other parts of the world they are having too many kids, then that's their problem. Common sense says a certain amount of land has a certain carrying capacity. We...

Japan does import most of it's food. 60%. So the 40% that Japan produces costs tens of billions in tax payer subsidies. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html ...."A tiny agricultural sector is highly subsidized and protected, with crop yields among the...

Agriculture in Japan is an embarrasment. I tried to find some figures, but the best I could do was this from 4 years ago,... http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5233 Japanese farmers receive 49 billion dollars in subsidies a year. The average Japanese taxpayer would be far better...

Well, we will see. It's the masses who provide the most votes, not industry and commerce. Industry and commerse are just lining the politicians pockets to encourage this unsustainable growth. I'm feeling the masses are getting fed up with the congestion. I see locals on the Gold Coast who...

Our population is growing at a million every 3 years now. Why would anyone want to increase that? We are headed to 50 million by 2050 and 100 million by 2090 at current growth rates. It's total madness. At 60 million we become a net food importer. And there goes a significant amount of export...

Hell yeah. We are already the fastest growing developed nation. Lets ramp it up eh? At 1.9% compound, we are on the way to 100 million in 2090. Won't that be bloody loverly. Lets pull our fingers out and get it up to 2.5%. That way we will hit 100 million in 2070. Thank flip I won't be...