Swiss Planning a Vote to Cap Population at Ten Million

Swiss citizens have spoken. They want a cap on the population of Switzerland. While portrayed in the conventional press as a “right-wing” initiative, a population cap is also a fundamental shift toward a steady state economy. Boiled down to its most basic equation, a steady state economy is stabilized population times per capita consumption. So, if the Swiss initiative prevails in the June referendum, you might say that Switzerland will be half a steady state away.