Wow .... The city of Bangalore in India is bigger than singapore. let us at least consider scale while comparing countries. Comparing India and singapore is like comparing an ant to an elephant.
With right immigration policies developed nations can manage it. You can import educated/productive individuals from India with limited liability for decades.
It may not be rich like first world, but reaching Mexico level per capita income and a safety net for basic needs + education and basic healthcare is possible within 3 decades. Corruption is reducing, infrastructure is being built like China of 2000s (almost) and a connected world is a very different place from what was possible 20 years back.
These days people want luxurious life. Those days are simply gone where people would be satisfy wit basic needs + education. And with the advent of social media like facebook/instagram where people tends to show off a lot this will make the situation more worst.
Not perfect, but i am seing improvements as more government services are moving online.
One example is passport. Previously it took few months and you had to bribe multiple offices to get a passport faster. Now you get passport within a week. And the only physical link left is the police verification.
Vehicle registration, transfer etc also moved online recently and reduced the scope of bribe there.
Land registration and records are also in the process of moving online.
But on the other side, corruption at political level etc are not reducing .
India's corruption rank was 94 before Modi came, and is currently 85, which is the highest it has been since Modi came. It has reduced quite a bit I'd say.
At what point do we just admit that this is being done intentionally by governments?
The easiest way to tackle climate change is to drastically reduce the population. Short of genocide - which only authoritarian governments can pull off - the easiest way is to set up an environment that puts as many barriers as possible on reproduction.
Make children extremely expensive so that only the elites can have multiple children. Inflate the cost of everything so it's impossible for a single-worker household to survive, and the cost of a third mouth to feed/educate/raise prohibitive. Then sit back and wait a generation or two. It's China's one child policy, but applied globally, through economics and social dynamics.
/tin foil hat off, but I also wouldn't entirely be surprised if there's a meeting precisely on this at Davos every year.
Funnily enough, childbirth is intrinsically expensive for a woman in terms of costs to their health and time, so simply giving women financial independence and birth control methods (IUD/pills/condoms) will drive down the birth rate regardless of other variables.
I am all for reducing human population but your proposal isn't all that different from genocide and slavery. I. Not looking forward to the day when laws will say what someone is allowed to do based on their wealth.
>> And area where other developing countries like India are in position of advantage, but need to channel right.