It's shocking to realize how ignorant people can be, too -- especially those who fly from one city to another and think they've actually traveled around the country.
I just finished driving 2,500+ miles across the United States on a work/vacation trip. There are about a thousand adjectives I could use to describe this country -- but OVERPOPULATED sure as hell ain't one of them.
You can live in landlocked, monotonous, boring flyover country if you want.
Count me out.
Apparently most other people prefer the coasts, too.
Fly over the coasts why don’t you?
You sound like Ben Wattenberg during the panel discussion when this report was released at the National Press Club He said the same thing.
Of course, silly anecdotal observations like that are really irrelevant. I could say the same thing flying over the Sahara desert or Antartica or even China or India for that matter. People tend to settle where there are jobs and infrastructure not in the middle of nowhere or in some uninhabitable area.
We have added 100 million people since 1970 and will add another 118 million by 2050 according to the Bureau of the Census projections. According to the CIS study, if immigration continues at current levels, the nation’s population will increase from 301 million today to 468 million in 2060 — a 167 million (56 percent) increase. Immigrants plus their descendents will account for 105 million (63 percent) of the increase. The total projected growth of 167 million is equal to the combined populations of Great Britain, France, and Spain. The 105 million from immigration by itself is equal to 13 additional New York Cities.
All of these additional people will require infrastructuure, e.g., roads, water, energy, sewage treatment plants, food, hospitals, prisons, etc. along with social programs, schools, cars, etc.
Assimilation issues aside, do we want to have a nation of half a billion? What number of people do you consider to be OVERPOPULATED?
Okay, I have an idea. We have already allowed California and Florida to be colonized and taken over by the Third World. The East Coast is one, big crappy, worn out and overcrowded megapolis. Everybody who thinks we could use a few hundred million more people here gets to go live in the underpopulated parts of Utah, North Dakota, New Mexico, West Texas, Arizona, South Dakota, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana.