>>2378111More importantly we need a drastic reduction in population. Easy and free access to the nature of your country should be an inalienable right. If the need even arises to prohibit access to the nature to save it from the crowd, then overpopulation is the first problem to address.
Sadly no country cares about that. There are many reasons for that, first and foremost stopping population growth (let alone a decline) would completely destroy retirement and pension schemes as we know them. I know that a growing share of young people don't trust these schemes anyway and plan their retirement under the assumption that they won't receive anything, so that's a step in the right direction at least.
Second, "access to nature" just isn't a very quantifiable metric. Objectively everybody realises that living in a small city in/near the alps or by the sea offers a better quality of life than living in Paris, London, or whatever urban hellhole, but for politicians trying to be (re)-elected it's not as markatable as an increase in purchasing power.
