Originally posted by changesmade:
The increase of population in Singapore, would essentially take
Singapore into a new challenge in Overpopulation.
PAP would probably failed as a Party in our future history
book.
Singapore might not prevail.
PAP would probably had to learn it the hard way.
In my opinion, there are three dangers.
- Food
- Water
- Security
It is so dangerous for a city state to be
overpopulated.
Especially when the city state and the smaller islands around are
not able to sustain the population.
I really suspect how much study was put into the white paper as
they claimed?
Overpopulated cities example like London, New York, Seoul, Bangkok
or even HongKong are not what Singapore could look up to. Singapore
unlike these populated cities, we do not have a broader area where
we could tapped resources on. When threatened from another country
to ban export to us. This inability could crippled Singapore in the
event when resources are not reached in time, say in a
month.
In the chinese, this would be known as a battle won without a
fight.
Key to a City state's population is about
sustainability.
NOT by simply building more Hospitals, Schools, expanding/building
more MRT lines and more HDB as to solve the problem of
Overpopulation.
Singapore in my opinion simply is having a total reliance on food
imports, just look at the quantity, quality and variety of food
products imported by Fairprice, Cold Storage. How could we sustain
these food products in 2030, with 7million or even more
people?
Furthermore, refering to the graphs below it shows that Singapore
is very much still relying on Malaysia in terms of food imports, as
of 2008.
However from my understanding we are now intending to reduce the
reliance on Malaysia, and building a project with China, known as
the SuperFarm, which should be completed around 2025. I believe
that project was aimed to reduce the imports of food from Malaysia,
yet with the introduction of white paper, would have greatly
"balance" off the demand by the increased
population.
I am doubtful of Singapore's ability to secure enough food after
2030, if the whole world is experiencing an overpopulation as
speculated by experts, 9 Billion in World's Population by 2050 if
true.
and climatic condition which would also affect the harvest all over
the world.
What I am afraid of is that by then not only do Foreigners snatch
jobs and scholarships from Singaporeans but also food products.
Just because we are meritocratic and Singaporeans doesn't mean that
we make the cut, food products could very much be taken by
foreigners then. If a food shortage should occur.
http://www.ifrj.upm.edu.my/16%20(2)%202009/01-%20IFRJ-2008-148%20Tey%20Malaysia%202nd%20proof.pdf
Water is another concern,
In 28 June 2011, PUB published on their website that their
projection for NEWater is to meet 50% of Singapore's water demand
by 2060.
I was just curious on what population was taken into consideration
when the projection was made.
Furthermore, I heard technology used by NEWater are energy
consuming. so as water demand increases, if it happen to coincide
with increase in gas/fuel prices. then would water be a privilege
too for ordinary Singaporeans?
Because even the Americans are making noises on whether is U.S.A
running low on water.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-6073416.html
http://www.pub.gov.sg/about/historyfuture/Pages/NEWater.aspx
So fundamentally food and water could be the factor that Singapore
would be facing in 2030. Human's fundamental
needs.
Third concern, is Singapore's ability to maneuver internationally
and regionally.
I wondered if it ever came across the table of those policy makers
that, having more than 50% of the population being foreign
born.
What sovereignty is there to talk about?
Once there is any disagreement with neighbouring or international
country, how hard is it to provoke a revoke against our
Government?
Or even legitimately armed the foreigners which would then be known
as PRs or New Singapore Citizens.
So if Singapore Armed Forces was to hit back, it would be against
International human rights law. Just like what happened in
Lybia.
Or say if a group of 10,000 people unarmed or armed with knifes and
sticks intend to overrun a small army camp, ideally on weekends.
using heavy vehicles to break in.
could our soldiers shoot to stop them? Even if they were given live
ammunition. If they shoot, nothing happen, it is their fault. If
they don't shoot and got overrun it is also their
fault.
I believe those on guards duty are not armed or train to disperse a
huge crowd of people. and once the group of 10,000 overrun camp and
armed themselves with the asernal of weapons. they could then
continue rampaging through other camps for more
weapons.
Singapore is gonna be in ruin in a matter of days, in my
opinion.
Lybia was toppled by a terrorist groups which claimed to be
Lybians, and backed by the western powers.
Gadaffi did said before his death that he was fighting a terrorist
group.
However Western power on their interest and in the name of human
rights, supported the terrorist groups and toppled
Gaddafi.
Gaddafi also said before that once he is toppled, Africa would be
in chaos.
Which happened quickly in Mali, terrorist groups with link with Al
qaeda and Lybia's "rebel"
Lybia, I suspect could be under the ruling of a terrorist
group.
and if this happen in Singapore, the reward for foreigners would be
huge.
a country's wealth and the enslave of its people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17582909
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/why-theres-a-war-in-mali-because-we-bumped-off-libyas-gaddaffi.html
Overpopulation will be a serious problem in Singapore...not only
limited to the supply of fresh water and food.
Singapore is a tiny island...we are already one of the most
densely populated countries in the world. 85% of Singaporeans
are now living on the top of one another in tiny apartments
stacked 20 storey high. These apartments are like ant
hills... tightly packed together...fresh air cannot flow freely
through them.
In the morning, one could feel the body heat generated by the
human mass ...and the smell of human odour ..pouring out from
these compact apartments...not unlike the terrible smell in
chicken farms. Adding millions more people would mean
building even smaller apartments and packing them even more tightly
together. This is UNHEALTHLY.
In New York, there were such apartment blocks built in the 50s
and the US government found them to be very unhealthy. These
appartment blocks had to be demolished. In Singapore, we
could not demolish them.
There will be no space for factories and for commercial
use...for economic growth. NO growth mean no new jobs for the
young graduates who job the work force in the furture.
Just like the 'stop at two'
policy, this unsustainable growth in population, if not stopped
soon, would bring disaster to Singapore.