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U.S. population will be 303.15 million at start of 2008

Posted at 1:28 PM on 28 Dec 2007

The U.S. population will hit 303.15 million on Jan. 1, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2008, the country will add one person every 13 seconds. My my, and it seems like just over a year ago we were announcing that the country's population had hit the 300 million mark. Where does the time and space go?

source: Reuters
see also, in Grist: U.S. fertility rate now high enough to sustain population

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U.S. Most Environmentally Destructive Country

Not only does the U.S. consume the most per person BY FAR, but it's the only industrialized country with a large population that's increasing. The religious idiocy that runs this country resulted in Jesse Helms getting a law passed that prevents a single-child-family policy by enshrining the right to [over]reproduce. The U.S. is so destructive to life and going in so many bad directions so quickly that (population increase, genetic engineering, etc.) it's hard to have any hope for it turning around, and forget any realistic expectation of doing so.

by Wolverine at 2:23 PM on 28 Dec 2007

New Slogan Alert!

Agreed, Wolverine.

With all the talk about solving the Climate Change Crisis by asking people to drive less, how about asking people to procreate less. (Boy, would that wipe out a myriad of enviro issues!)

I've got the new slogan: "Save the Environment. Go f*** yourself."

NoPunProductions.com ~ AmericaTheGreen.org

by Greta at 10:02 PM on 28 Dec 2007

I dunno, Greta...

That seems dangerously close to a pun... You know, which you claim you don't produce. :)

Seriously, cool slogan. I'd wear it on a T-shirt, if you made them.

by Pathos at 11:53 PM on 28 Dec 2007

Thanks for saying something.....anything at all...

Even though the economic powerbrokers among us, their bought-and-paid-for politicians and their minions in the mass media refuse to speak openly about anything having to do with our conspicuous consumption, overproduction and propagation activities which they would have us continue to ignore, perhaps we can help these woefully inadequate leaders by beginning to speak about the unsustainable "primrose path" of endless economic growth that these adamant leaders are relentlessly trodding without regard for either the future of life or human and environmental health.

Steve Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/

by stevenearlsalmony at 7:42 AM on 29 Dec 2007

Teenage preganancy

It's the new status symbol for teens. They wanna be like Britainey's sister. Let Disney show the way to unlimited growth.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

by amazingdrx at 8:25 AM on 29 Dec 2007

Geezerville, USA

We all talk about wanting to limit births...but how about hastening deaths. Our lifespans are the real problem. Back in the good old 19th Century, the average age of mortality was 47. A perfectly full life could be lived in 40 or so years.

Now we have people hanging around forever. What we need is to shorten lifespans. Yes, there used to be an easy answer: Lucky Strikes. But now you can't smoke within 100 yards of a fire hydrant.

As far as teenage pregnancy, I say, God Bless 'Em. Have you ever looked at the mortality tables for mothers? It's far safer to have a kid at 16 than at 26 or 36. Get it out of the way, give it to your parents and let them enjoy a "second parenting". Then lose some weight and go clubbing for the next 10 years.

by jabailo at 8:54 AM on 29 Dec 2007

Global Population Problems

As an aside, read this article to see how population growth is threatening one of the last areas of the planet that's in anywhere near natural condition:
http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/28362

by Wolverine at 1:01 PM on 31 Dec 2007

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