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Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by growlist on Thursday July 02, 2020 @08:03AM (#23712219)
> The UK is physically large enough that everyone on Earth actually could live there with a reasonable amount of space to themselves.

Clearly we have different ideas about reasonableness.

> if it's population you're concerned about, shouldn't you also worry about people having babies?

I do, especially in those parts of the world in which fertility is particularly high yet ability to actually look after those children is particularly low

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Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents by pgcj_poster on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:40PM (#23715842)
If you divide the world population by the UK's area, you get 80,700 people/mile², which is slightly less than the population density of Mumbai, and only 13% higher than Manhattan. You might consider that "unreasonable," but it's not unlivable, or anything.
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