For several decades Canada’s population growth rate hovered at about 1.0 percent annually. This rate has more than tripled in a few short years, up to 3.3 percent in 2023.

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      6 months ago

      There is no downside to building homes for everyone. There are downsides to not having a large population. More people can be beneficial economically, geopolitically, and socially.

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        6 months ago

        There are significant downsides to a large population, some of which are a function of the buildings required to house them, like how you supply all those homes with electricity. There is absolutely such a thing as too many people and such a thing as too many buildings and/or buildings which are too large.

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          6 months ago

          And we’re nowhere close to those theoretical absolute limits, and likely will never get there as a species.

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        But not being able to build homes fast enough to match the population growth is detrimental though.