BP what you said is "the once environmentally dead Canterbury plains is now again a beautiful landscape".
Are you referring to what you envisage for the Canterbury plains or what it is "now"? If you meant the former then I misunderstood you, however perhaps you can see by re-reading your post how what you wrote could easily be interpreted as the recent changes to the landscape of the Canterbury plains, i.e. dairy conversion. So there is nothing made up in my post, talk about shooting from the hip.
Perhaps before getting high & mighty you may want to understand where others are coming from & being pro a stablised population is not anti immigration. All it means is you fluctuate the level of immigration according to the flows in & out of NZ. Your racist rhetoric is getting tiresome. There is nothing racist about it. Cheap shots do not score points, they are just that cheap.
If you rely on a bigger population for growth, your model is flawed & unsustainable. Where does its stop? 5 million, 10, 60 million like the UK?
One of NZs greatest advantages is its natural beauty and relatively unspoiled environment and open spaces. This is massive for tourism & as the rest of the world concrete's their landscape it will become even more valuable.
Its all a nice way to distract from the TPPA which really is the most pertinent point for discussion imo right now.