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Recent Population Estimates from US Census
Let's test just how fast the US and world population is exploding.
In re-writting this article today, March 28th 2015 at 10:00am the USA population was: 320,590,722!
In re-writting this article today, March 28th 2015 at 10:00am the World population was: 7,233,306,103!!
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Now take a look at the population clocks in the right column and examine what the current population marks are. What is happening is that much of the 3rd world has had a massive population explosion. India will probably exceed China's population within the next 10 years. The Indian sub-continent (India, Pakastan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) already exceeds the population of greater China (China and Tawian).
The 1960's in America, Canada, Australia and much of Western Europe the environmental awareness movement of those nations citizens began to grow. Activists soon formed the modern environmental movement in including a US Senator, Gaylord Nelson (Born: June 4, 1916 Died: July 3, 2005). Many of the environmentalists soon became well aware of the disastrous effects of population growth on the environment.
Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, stated:
"Forging and maintaining a sustainable society is the critical
challenge for this and all generations to come. In responding to
that challenge, population will be the critical factor in
determining whether or not we succeed in forging such a society."
His words "critical factor" should be ringing in our ears! All of
the environmental changes and US Government programs such as recycling,
biodegradable soaps, air pollution standards are basicly for
nothing and in net effect are a waste!
Why? The United States population on April 1, 1980 was: 226,545,805 (The Census Bureau clock only goes back too April 1, 1980!) Today when writting this article the population of the United States was: 320,515,106 at 9:07am on March 13th 2015.
Do the math please!
So to place this in a better perspective, between the years of 1980 to 2015 the USA added the equivalent population of any one of the 3 nations below!
13 Vietnam 91,519,289
14 Ethiopia 91,195,675
15 Egypt 83,688,164
(Populations as of January 1, 2012)
So in the period of 35 years we have added the environmental effects of the population of any one of the 3 nations listed above to the already existing environmental issues that the USA had in 1980! That is a significant amount of human excrement to treat, water to be pumped and treated for consumption, trash to fill our landfills, more roads to carry the ever increasing vehicular traffic and in America it indicates another massive amount of strip malls and housing developments in what was once productive farmland.
The Sierra Club has stated that:
"... all of our environmental successes may be short-lived if they do not include efforts to address population growth."
(note the original page is no longer available from www.sierraclub.org)
In the period from 1980 to 2015, the U.S. has converted more than 10 million acres of forest to suburb - this is an area that is twice the size of the Everglades, Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Shenandoah National Parks combined!
At present the U.S. is the third most populous country in the world and we have the highest population growth rate of all developed countries. How is that? Answer immigration!
Liberal & Conservative Intransigence
(intransigence!)
The American environmental movement is in a war against itself. And the cause of the "civil war" has a name, that is population. Trying to negotiate the political minefield between all political parties is so dangerous that many environmental groups and leaders have stopped trying to cross it. But by ignoring the central issues of population increase as a central issue of this nations environmental degradation while espousing heavily about urban sprawl, air and water pollution, loss of biodiversity, loss of agricultural land and animal habitat destruction is nearly meaningless! The 2 issues are intertwined and directly related to each other.
Both of the major US politcal parties have been captivated by possibility of either not getting the huge immigrant vote or of capturing that same huge immigrant vote. So neither party is willing to take a stand on the "Population Pressure Cooker". It has become the invisable Pink Elephant or Red Jackass sitting in front of all members of the House and Senate. Both major political parties are drunk and intoxicated with getting that immigrant vote!
intransigence
intransigent
Definition of INTRANSIGENT: characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude: uncompromising <intransigent in their opposition> <an intransigent attitude>.
Bibliography
http://www.susps.org/overview/immigration.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
http://www.sierraclub.org/population
http://www.balance.org/
http://www.census.gov/en.html
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