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If you import 12 million people in 20 years, your energy generation, water provision, and housing affordability are all going to fall off a cliff vs demand.

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Why would energy generation fall off a cliff if the population increases by 12 million? How does that makes sense?

It’s measured per capita

I'm pretty sure electricity demand in the UK has been declining in absolute terms, not just per capita.

Due to industry leaving.

That’s both not what you said, and not how energy generation is measured.

> Chernobyl failed when operators attempted to raise the generator output from 4 kw/h per capita to 5.7 kw/h per capita

How silly

That’s a hypothesis that would make sense if this were per-capita alone but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_Kingdom#/...

It's true that industry has been massively moving out of the UK for the last 50 years, so energy demand has gone down, but that just means that the proportion of energy generation costs are higher for the population.

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