I hadn't realised just how small Tonga's land area is. Imagine a square 30km x 30km. It's smaller than that (747 square km).<p>But this table of countries ranked by population densities shows Tonga is not even close to the most densely populated countries (Tonga is about 65th of about 200 countries): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...</a>
this isn't that big of a deal. People do this on purpose. Collect cars, wait until the price of steel goes up, and bring in a moble crusher and truck them out to a port. It's pretty common practice. If you play your cards right, you can make money. It's only 8 acres. I've seen 40+ acres full of cars, which were crushed in a few days with a special machine.
Is it not economically viable to melt the cars for steel? Or is there not enough demand for steel in Tonga that the steel would need to be shipped abroad anyways?
Same solution as most problems: import tax should include cost of getting rid of the car when you’re done. Then getting rid of a car is free. Ship it off the island at your expense and you get a refund.
So many of the problems we've made seem like they could be great fixed by less people instead of more each year.<p>Imagine the next population doubling and all that cost and suffering it will bring.