Plans to change Guernsey's population laws need to help maintain the island's unique character, says the chief minister.
Although there is no early prospect of a global shortage of any of the earth's resources, a larger population does change the earth and its environment, removing forests, cultivating land or building on it, and driving out other species, and that is itself a cause for legitimate concern.
Sir Malcolm urged ministers to try to change the UK population's behaviour, saying there was "considerable scope for the government to launch a national consumer campaign to reduce domestic food waste" and for it to "set national targets to curb food waste within the UK food production and retail sectors, with clear sanctions for companies that fail to meet these targets".
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"There's an ageing population, and people's need are changing so services need to adapt and change, and it's inevitable as technology advances in the 21st Century that services need to be organised a little bit differently, " she said.
It is based on a piece of evolutionary theory called the founder effect, which shows how the isolation of small populations from larger ones can accelerate evolutionary change, because a small population's average characteristics are likely to differ from those of the larger group from which it is drawn.
Westminster, home to Victoria coach station, a gateway for eastern Europeans seeking employment in the UK, has long been campaigning for a change in the way London's population is calculated.
Michael White, professor of sociology at Brown University, said the rise of minorities fits into a longer-term evolution of the U.S. population, a mosaic that has been adapting to ethnic change since the first Census was recorded in 1790.
The explanation for the change lies mostly in broader population trends: Latin America's population has exploded in the last five decades while Europe is growing at a slower rate.
In fact, the change in the patient population has been so acute that a King's Fund study has put the average age of a patient at over 80.
Looking back to 1996, it is encouraging that the educational, age and gender profile of the online population is approaching that of the U.S. More distressing is the lack of change in the income profile.
It sees the EU's population of 500m people and its economic heft as a route to relevance on issues such as climate change.
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