Is all this appropriate to a thread on Private Flying? - Well it certainly is.
We are all aware of the pressure to convert airstrips and even larger airfields into housing estates, we all know of the pressure to control airspace so that more and more people can fly here there and everywhere, and we all expect avgas to go up and up in price in the future.
Not to mention the costs of housing, education, National Health Service and transport which affect us all every day, and help to limit disposable income which ought to be devoted to our (selfish?) hobby. Just imagine - if no new houses were to be built because there was no increase in population to demand them, then there would be quarter of a million £££ for each house to spare for better purposes.
Megan - your post does a brilliant job of stating the painfully obvious. I go along with every word of it. And if, one day, a political party would put population control in its manifesto, then it would get my vote without question. Meanwhile, the ever increasing floods of illegal immigrants from central Africa into Europe may yet prove to be the tipping point. It has certainly brought some sense of reality to the central european countries.