No feather in the cap
India, June 2 -- "No To a Switzerland with 10 million! (Sustainability Initiative)." On June 14, when Switzerland votes in the referendum, it will be the world's first attempt to cap a country's population at a specific level. Countries have previously experimented with and enforced population-control measures, notably China's one-child policy of the 1980s. But the Swiss referendum comes against a backdrop of a dipping fertility rate, rising immigration to fill workforce needs and growing anti-immigrant sentiment. What makes it stand out is the attempt to set a population threshold, implying that beyond this level, the country's resources and public infrastructure would not be able to cope sustainably. This, in a wider context, brings to ...
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