<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Population growth and climate: The E.U.-15 vs. the U.S.]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-up-and-up/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:08:48 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-up-and-up/1 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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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.

]]> Comment #2 by Biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-up-and-up/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:35:53 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-up-and-up/2 Global warming is global

The 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

]]> Global warming is global

The 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

]]> Comment #3 by KenG http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-up-and-up/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:52:29 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-up-and-up/3 Statistics

It'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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It'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.

]]> Comment #4 by GonzoDon http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-up-and-up/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:11:00 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-up-and-up/4 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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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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