Comments on: Traffic Report Mentions Population Growth, But Not Where It Will Come From

By: Larry Glickfeld

Larry Glickfeld — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 02:22:21 +0000

This is so typical of those writing about transportation, energy, environmental, or other needs, that is, they’ll come on by saying that “….because of our growing population, we need more roads, energy sources….” or whatever. They virtually never say that we need to “quit growing our population”, and this is the case both nationally and worldwide. This attitude has to change.

By: Maury Miller

Maury Miller — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:42:00 +0000

Immigration is driving the massive population increase but there is too much money to be made by all kinds of interest groups. Our per capita consumption of energy continues to decrease, but this doesn’t matter since the growth in population will counter this decrease. Politicians continue to come up with schemes to tax carbon to meet greenhouse gas goals. But these taxes will hurt the middle class!

By: SecBorders

SecBorders — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:22:42 +0000

In reply to Leland. And we don't even have enough good jobs for our current population. There is no guarantee that if we increase our population by such a large amount that the jobs will automatically appear.

By: Leland

Leland — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:45:10 +0000

In reply to softwarengineer. One thing we have to keep in mind also is that a big part of the present improvement in the economy can be traced to the lowering of energy prices. If a person fills up weekly and is saving a dollar per gallon that is going straight to their pocket and being spent on other things. But a growing population will eventually just soak up the extra oil in the system and we go right back to higher prices. Not to mention the environmental impact of all those extra people.

By: Leland

Leland — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:21:07 +0000

One blog comment on the story says the Washington Post acts like 70 million more people “is just the way it’s going to be” while the paper ignores the fact that immigration will be the largest factor in that increase. But actually that’s common in our media. And let’s just remember that figure of 70 million is based on present immigration levels, not the doubling and tripling of those levels that many politicians are promoting.

We have a choice. Either spend the huge amount of money to build the infrastructure for all those people or reduce immigration to the low levels of the mid 20th century and not have to build as much.

By: softwarengineer

softwarengineer — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:02:02 +0000

Last I Read On the Legal Citizen America’s Birthrate

We have been depopulating at a 1.7 rate [2.2 is equity]. We’ve destroyed that recent dream entirely with foreign overpopulation, legal or illegal.