Population growth and climate: The E.U.-15 vs. the U.S. 4

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   Delay And Deny Posted 2:08 pm
   22 Oct 2008

   Not Any More
   
   The US mostly added citizens from Mexico.
   However, in the last 2 years, that immigration has dwindled to near zero.
   Europe grew due to middle eastern migration...in some countries reaching 20 percent of the total population.
   My guess is that growth is not sustainable either.
   What is different about us is that while many European countries are at the top of the density chart, the US is near the bottom!
   We have bigger houses, live further apart and travel longer distances to do stuff.

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   Biodiversivist Posted 12:35 am
   23 Oct 2008

   Global warming is globalThe world population is still increasing 75 million per year.
   
   In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

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   KenG Posted 3:52 am
   23 Oct 2008

   StatisticsIt's getting really hard to stay up with the numbers. Although the US has been increasing economic performance (GDP) at about twice the rate of Europe, I have repeatedly seen this dismissed as being largely the result of the higher US population growth and I accepted that. Now we find European population is growing faster? That would mean the European economic performance is very disappointing.

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   GonzoDon Posted 7:11 am
   23 Oct 2008

   Population!Gasp! Grist is actually publishing an article that focuses on exponential population growth as a root environmental problem on our planet.  Many of us would say THE root.
   Good job, Grist!  I just wish you did this more.  Adding 400,000 new people to our little planet EVERY DAY is not something that activists are going to offset by convincing a few hundred yuppies in Berkeley to trade in their old light bulbs for compact fluorescents.

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