Environmental optimism (letter)*

Sir,I find it ironic that Dr Peter Carter (Letters, February 9) chose Singapore as a country whose population policies we should follow. He might be thinking of Singapore’s "two is enough" population control policy which started in the 1970s. This policy was so successful that the Singaporean Government found that birth rates dropped and the elderly proportion of the population increased. The Government started to ask: Who would support all these elderly pensioners? Who would work and …

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