Boris Johnson, Daily Mail
... What we are seeing is not a crisis, but a sign
that the human population is organically self-regulating,
seeking a better balance with Nature, a better quality of life; a
recognition among other things that per capita productivity
matters much more than brute national productivity.
After years of demographic strain, we are in sight of a demographic dividend, a blessing.
The last thing we need, therefore, is a load of tosh from the politicians about having more babies. It’s hectoring, it’s insulting and it never works. ...
The doom-mongers can’t have it both ways. They can’t simultaneously complain that machines are making human workers unnecessary while also demanding that we import or create more people to do the work. ...
