The global population will likely peak in our lifetimes. What then? Every country will have need of their young; why should Scotland have priority for the young of, say, Ghana?
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Scotland, or the UK, can't and doesn't compel anyone to immigrate. Are you suggesting that people should instead be compelled to stay in their countries of birth? Would you be content to be told you may never leave?
aug 23, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
I'm not suggesting people should be compelled to stay anywhere, I am simply highlighting that the emigration of the young can be a problem, as it often has been in Ireland and as it was in Romania at the time of EU accession, for example. We cannot think only in terms of recipient nations.
aug 23, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
In other countries families are still traditionally larger and life expectancy not be as high? So they do not have the same issue we have. Creating hysteria about immigration because of some hypothetical global scenario that might or might not occur in a few centuries time seems a bit silly too.
aug 23, 2025, 10:07 am • 1 0 • view