At the Academia Sinica's Assembly of Members held in mid-July, its president Lee Yuan-tseh said that given that energy resources are limited and that Taiwan is the second most densely populated country in the world (with 600 people per square kilometer), "a small reduction in the population would be a good thing."
7 月中旬，中研院院長李遠哲在院士會議演講中指出，站在能源有限的角度來看，人口密度高居世界第二（每平方公里達 600 人）的台灣，「人口還是減少一點比較好」。