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Posted by FabCH 3 hours ago

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million(www.swissinfo.ch)
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anonym29 2 hours ago|
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JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago||
> political right, the anti-abortion people

Anti-immigrant. It’s an immigration cap.

> reduce global human growth for climate preservation, are opposed?

Pro-EU. The cap is within half a million of the current population and pretty much immediately set to trigger consultations.

I actually deliberated on this one and landed against because of how proximate the cap was set and the pretty horrible tone of the pro-cap side’s marketing.

Rnonymous 2 hours ago|||
In Europe the right doesn't really care about abortion that much, its not really something i hear parties discuss. Their main focal point is immigration, anti-muslim sentiment.

The left can be for reduction of GLOBAL human growth, but still increase LOCAL growth, which is primarily caused by immigration not birthrate.

troupo 2 hours ago||
It also looks like most of European right is explicitly anti-immigration, and all other issues are usually indistinguishable from left.
ivell 2 hours ago|||
It is about immigration, not population control.
armenarmen 2 hours ago||
I'm assuming that this is a proxy for an immigration debate if that's how the left and right split
stymaar 2 hours ago||
Yes, but not just “immigration”, but open borders with the EU: most immigrants in Switzerland are EU citizens, and it fits in a broader framework of Swiss-European agreement, capping population would almost certainly imply withdrawal from this framework.
jeffbee 2 hours ago|
Cities once again save rural voters from civic suicide.