[EagleUSA]

Yes, for example, look at Los Angeles. Where is that massive population spike coming from??

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[dfwgator]

What a load of crap.

[Tulane]

While some may quibble with the method used, the math is irrefutable.
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Irrefutable? We have 300,000,000 people and the highest living standards on earth...Yet the author states that the country is overpopulated by 70 million.

I am guessing he votes democrat.

[dfwgator]

Oh Please Al Gore Save Us!!!!!

[Eepsy]

Yeah, It's overpopulation that's ruining Detroit and Cleveland, that's the ticket...

[reformed_democrat]

The average American's "ecological footprint" (the demands an individual endowed with average amounts of resources, i.e., land, water, food, fiber, waste assimilation and disposal, etc. puts on the environment) is about 12 acres

Where did they get this number?

[mirkwood]

"Carrying capacity refers to the number of individuals who can be supported in a given area within natural resource limits, and without degrading the natural social, cultural and economic environment for present and future generations."

Who determines this? Another researcher looking for a grant?

[RobRoy]

>>The average American's "ecological footprint" (the demands an individual endowed with average amounts of resources, i.e., land, water, food, fiber, waste assimilation and disposal, etc. puts on the environment) is about 12 acres, an area far greater than that taken up by one's residence and place of school or work. <<

Yeah, that's why cars have radiators. The detonation chamber cannot dissipate the heat fast enough so it is carried off to where it can be released.

We have land fills, mountain rivers, etc. The planet was made for this stuff - literally.

[redgolum]

Except that we feed much more than that 500 million right now. With a lot of land in CRP.

[Toskrin]

Did this guy just learn how to use a calculator? Sounds like an eight year old kid - "Hey Dad, guess what 11,213 times 516 is!"

[ichabod1]

What's the answer? Abortion and euthanazia!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Yeah, cities are so crowded, nobody goes there anymore!

[This Just In]

"Unless we elect politicians who have the courage to reduce population growth, the future is grim."

Ofcourse--Politicians governing the womb--sounds like China.

Well, I guess if we don't vote Democrat, we're doomed, unless it's Romney. I'm sorry, I guess he is a "Republican."

[goldstategop]

Where's the MEGA-BARF Alert? Liberals are misanthropes who want humanity extinct. I want it as numberless as the grains of sand on the seashore and the stars in the heavens. I love mankind and desire it to EXPAND without limits.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[untenured]

The tipping point toward the environmental disaster du jour is just around the corner, and always will be.

[nascarnation]

I visited Atlanta and Phoenix in the early 70s as a young man.
I thought they were two of the most wonderful places in the US.
Now IMHO they are the Chicagos of the SE and SW.

I'll have to pick a new retirement spot, LOL

[voltaires_zit]

While not endorsing the conclusions or methodology of this article, the population numbers going forward are a bit of a problem, especially the "highest series":

http://www.census.gov/population/projections/nation/summary/np-t1.pdf

Year 2100
Middle Series 570,954
Lowest Series 282,706
Highest Series 1,182,390
Zero Immigration Series 377,444

[teawithmisswilliams]

The average American's "ecological footprint" (the demands an individual endowed with average amounts of resources, i.e., land, water, food, fiber, waste assimilation and disposal, etc. puts on the environment) is about 12 acres, an area far greater than that taken up by one's residence and place of school or work.

Sounds like we should immediately stop all immigration here, doesn't it? After all, they will start consuming like Americans.

I'm sure the good leftie would agree. /sarc.

[Pan_Yan]

Unless we elect politicians who have the courage to reduce population growth, the future is grim.

You first.