Let us start with causes rather than symptoms.
If we are going to double our population every lifetime we will simply imprison ourselves. We have got to understand that the strength of a nation and a nation's economic wealth and power will no longer come from numbers but from technology. Indeed, it is not just in how we regulate our front lawns that population growth dictates, it is in every aspect of our human endeavor.
We conservatives are facing a future in which we will be both prisoners and our own jailers unless we can deal with causes. So we must stop unrestricted immigration and we must contain population growth. As an ideal for those who love liberty, we should begin gradually to reduce the population of America but, of course, without government pressure. Today the government expands population through immigration to pad Democrat voter rolls and to provide cheap labor and a pool of consumers for business. Government must at least become neutral.
That means that our economy has to adjust away from a consumer base which is essentially a Ponzi scheme, we bring in more and more unproductive citizens who have just enough money, often from the government, to buy consumer goods, usually made in China. This scheme is the opposite of the Chinese model which is mercantilist. Our model cannot sustain itself for ever. Consider Social Security which seeks to perpetuate itself by introducing more and more takers and fewer fewer contributors.
So we must find a way of basing an economy on technology which is a technological problem and then we must find a way of distributing the wealth created by technology, such as robots, consistent with conservative values.
If we do not do it in a fashion consistent with conservative values, the left will do it for us through impositions of tyranny and in the process will dissipate all the vast wealth, all the human benefits, that technology might produce. If we are having difficulty regulating how we maintain our front lawns, imagine the difficulty of trying to distribute wealth created by machines. Yet if we do not do so, we will have a system which will create a very small , very limited and very elite class which owns and maintains robots and a very vast, uneducated, ignorant, dependent, and extremely poor class of consumers. If we do nothing the left will expropriate it all and we will have something between the oligarchs of Russia and the madness of Venezuela. We cannot permit the left to solve this problem.
The problem with our lawns is only a wake-up call.
