What an amazing urban planner!
Criticism on constraints (housing, healthcare, transport, amenities, etc.) are passe to me. So, I will save the agony of repeating.
Our First Water Agreement with Malaysia expires in 2011 which is just next year. Singapore will scarcely be able to supply water for 5 million people, muchless 7.5 million people in the future. In fact, not only will we have to pay through our noses for water after the elections, I think we will experience water-rationing within 5 years from 2011. Desalination, water reclamation, etc. are masturbation because we will be held ransom by energy costs.
The Second Water Agreement expires in 2061. Yes, it is 50 years from now. But human beings are not digits. You cannot reduce the number overnight without creating an exodus and a collapse of the economy. This is just one example of how Singapore can become a fishing village again due to incompetent policies. There are also uncontrollable factors that we cannot anticipate/foresee.
Singapore is a tiny island with no resources. What we need are buffers, buffers and more buffers. There is no room for even tiny mistakes.
Singapore does not produce its own food. Any disruption to food supplies will create chaos. Many years back when our population was still manageable, a small disruption to vegetable supplies at the Pasir Panjang wholesale market already created HELL and panic.
Singapore does not produce its own energy and cannot survive an external shock. Surely fossil fuel supply will decline/exhaust within the next 50 years.
Singapore is highly wired up. A tiny program error by some Foreign Trash will shut down the train system, banking system, communication system, and logistics.
Anyone with an IQ of 89 would think we should reduce our population to 3.0 million - for safety and long term self-preservation. Even then, we should pray hard, very hard.