POP.-UP NATION
http://nypost.com/news/nationalnews/37339.htm
December 29, 2004 --

Boom!

Boosted by immigration and a new American being born every eight seconds, the nation's population grew by nearly 3 million in 2004, the Census Bureau said yesterday.

Angst-filled experts predict the total could reach a staggering 1 billion by the end of the century.

Census-takers projected that by New Year's Day, the population would be up 2.8 million, or 1 percent, over Jan. 1, 2004, to 295,160,302.

If the rate continues to explode as expected, more than 100 million new Americans could be taking up space by mid-century, bureau spokesman Robert Bernstein told The Post.

Bean-counters now project about 420 million Americans by 2050, with others saying the number could double by the turn of the century. Two-thirds of the growth will come from immigration.

"The plain fact is that we're seeing dramatic increases," said population expert Jim Motavalli, editor of the environmental magazine E.

Citing recent estimates, Motavalli said a surge of immigrants could bring the total to 1 billion by 2100.

The bureau said one immigrant arrives on U.S. shores every 26 seconds.



In the survey released yesterday, the bureau said that among the states, Nevada showed the highest population growth rate, at 4.1 percent. The gamblers' paradise has been ranked first for the past 18 years.

Four Western states joined Nevada on the list of 10 fastest-growing states: Arizona (second), Idaho (fourth), Utah (seventh) and New Mexico (10th).

New York's growth numbers were puny by comparison, with the state's national ranking plummeting to 49th place. The Empire State had a mere 0.1 percent increase.

"That's really quite small," said a circumspect Bernstein.

The remaining Top 10 fastest-growing states were all coastal: Florida (third), Georgia (fifth), Texas (sixth), Delaware (eighth) and North Carolina (ninth).

The South now accounts for 36 percent of the nation's population, the bureau said, with the West comprising 23 percent, the Midwest 22 percent and the Northeast 19 percent.

California remains the most populous state in the nation with nearly 40 million people, followed by Texas (22.5 million) and New York (19.2 million).

In other highlights, the Census Bureau said the nation's 10 most populous states accounted for 54 percent of the nation's population on July 1, 2004.

The 10 fastest-growing states accounted for 49 percent of the national growth from 2003 to 2004.

Analysts have predicted that the world's population could double to 12 billion by 2050.

That's 168 new people every minute, another New York City every 33 days or another Mexico every year. With Post Wire Services

I'm not sure growth trends will continue as they are for another 95 years. We all learn in high school biology that as resources run out, the growth levels off. And those resources in the US could be water, space, and, at some point in the future, maybe money/food. I'm not sure we can support 1 billion people, and if our economy can no longer support people, I think immigration will slow down.

I live in a neighborhood with lots of Mexicans and Asians and Arabs and people barely in their 20's have 4 kids already.Its just amazing how people with not a lot of money would want so many kids.Meanwhile,the Italian and Irish and Jewish neighborhoods have faded
due to lack of population growth.The old people die or move to the suburbs and are replaced by immigrants just starting big families.All my favorite Italian food places are now Chinese Restaurants


there is nothing positive about a Billion people in a country.It sucks a lot of resources,sucks away animal and nature habitats.

Little Italy feels your pain.

You're right though, there is nothing good about that. Why don't people see what is happening to the Earth and its resources?

It must be that abstinence-only education.

That sounds pretty bad.

I'll just move to Mexico. Should be plenty of room there by then, with all the immigration. Buby, make room!

I'll make room if you promise to take care of the foreign debt.

US dollar is around 9:1 vs. the peso right? I'll clean it up pal. You, me, Zutmon and a lot of tequila.

You guys are more than welcome.

I figure most of us will be dead by the end of the century. We're so golden!

now the new trend for 50 something grandma's seems to be to have kids all over again And its always triplets.Wont be too suprised to read that Beau Arthur is pregnant with triplets

Woman, 55, delivers triplets for daughter
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/12/29/grandmother.birth.ap/index.html

Great-Red states.
no wonder there are so few people here from Nevada.

There will not be 1 billion people comfortably living within the United States by 2100 if we still want to do things like eat, and drive to work in less than four hours. Over the next century (warning: pipe dream ahead) in order to save space, build better cities, cut our fuel useage, and conserve this country for the future we would need to end our pratice of never ending urban sprawl. Compare Hong Kong to LA. If LA were built with the same building density as Hong Kong is, the LA basin could support 6 billion people. Granted there wouldn't be any water for 5.95 billion of them, bt we're just talking city size here. Earthquakes? I'm sure we could exchange some knowledge with Japan for building megacities ontop of active fault lines.

Here in the Detroit the urban sprawl is pathetic. You have downtown, a ring of nothing, and finally sixty or more miles of urban sprawl extending out in all directions. I'm just assuming there will be some sort of snapback in the rate of growth sometime before the entire country turns into a cul-de-sac.

Thanks for joining us, aerojad! I'm really enjoying your posts.

--PunkDavid

Blame that huge torrent with 234829472 rare PJ songs :p



...and boredom.

Toilet paper, everyone's gonna need it. Buy stock, beleive you me.

I'm buying real estate that is currently 100 feet under Lake Michigan, because it will be shoreline after all these people drink the lake.

--PunkDavid

I'm buying stock in Canada, to benifit from the upcoming drama: Manifest Destiny 2: It's the North Pole's Turn

I'll do my part and not have children.

ill do my part and have sex with girls that feel this way.