Posted on 12/13/2007 9:31:28 AM PST by westcoastwillieg
U.S. POPULATION EXPLOSION FUELS DEMAND FOR ENERGY
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Behind China and India, the U.S. is the third most populous nation in the world and we’re fast catching up. As population grows so does the amount of energy we need. Just as two people require more water than one person so it is with energy in a modern society.
To be sure there are ways to conserve but there is a limit to how much we can conserve without self destructing. There is no magic bullet and our dependence on foreign oil will range far into the future.
With the rapid industrialization of other areas of the world, natural resources will be in short supply---some already are. Our president refuses to deal with the massive population growth that is fueling the demand for water and energy.
For some reason the president and our State Department are intent on dumping as many people as they can onto our shores. Recently our Secretary of State granted an immigration waiver so that many of the 9,300 Burmese refugees at a camp in Thailand can be considered for resettlement in the United States. If you think our roads, schools, prisons and hospitals are jammed today just wait a few years.
The hole our president is digging gets deeper every day---to bring the U.S. to its knees, all our enemies have to do is wait until our population outstrips the supply of energy we can afford; if our good citizens don’t act, it may be sooner than you think.
No conservative should support this population control crap.
Opposition to illegal immigration is great -- but don't be useful idiots for the radical left.
Methinks you should read some Julian Simon. We have more than enough resources worldwide for a food/energy SURPLUS. Besides, population growth has been slowing worldwide since the 1960s.
Leave "population control" to the lefties.
Sounds like a job for Captain Hyperbole!
Not buying that Edmund Muskie Club of Rome Family Planning Malthusianism.
Dang illegal immigrants.
We are catching up to China, but not India, but it will take at least another century. China has a population of 1.3 billion with an annual population growth rate of .606% and a total fertility rate of 1.75 children born/woman. The US has a population of 303 hundred million, annual growth rate .894%, and a total fertility rate of 2.09 children born/woman. India has a population of 1.1 billion, annual growth rate 1.606%, and a total fertility rate of 2.81 children born/woman.
The author's point, and I agree with it, is that our population growth, the highest in the developed world, will have a major impact on global energy consumption because we use more per capita than anyone else. We are going to have to run just to stand still in terms of our energy needs.
I wish that were the case. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups refuse to get involved with the immigration issue even though it will have a major impact on the environment. It is like NOW not condemning Clinton for his womanizing.
“The author’s point, and I agree with it, is that our population growth, the highest in the developed world, will have a major impact on global energy consumption because we use more per capita than anyone else. We are going to have to run just to stand still in terms of our energy needs.”
303 million has a long way to go to get to 1.3 billion. The growth rates in latin and middle eastern countries is higher. The issue is that most countries don’t track accurately.
As for energy use; I don’t buy that the US uses that much more energy per capita than other countries. The US tracks these more accurately and reports more honestly.
China and India have over a billion people. They are exempt from all the discussions on controls. This entire debacle is solely an effort to suck money out of America.
The dimensions of the Hispanic baby boom are startling. The Hispanic birthrate is twice as high as that of the rest of the American population. That high fertility rate – even more than unbounded levels of immigration – will fuel the rapid Hispanic population boom in the coming decades.
By 2050, the Latino population will have tripled, the Census Bureau projects. One in four Americans will be Hispanic by midcentury, twice the current ratio.
It's the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country – over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly 1 ½ times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for unmarried white women, 22 for unmarried Asian women, and 66 for unmarried black women.
Rising population fuels rising economic growth fuels new technology after new technology, yields abundant power ever more efficiently. But the Malthusians haven't changed one note of the hymn, despite it being stompingly wrong for 200 years and counting.
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