"Elegy for the Sunshine State"

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20. Touchy subject but there are facts...

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1. The current U.S. population growth rate is .7%.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW

2. Growth should be negative if 98% of climate and environmental scientists are to be believed - apparently you don't believe them. And they agree that the growth rate of the world's human population and its current rate of consumption are unsustainable. "Current Population is Three Times the Sustainable Level"
http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/3_times_sustainable

3. The U.S. Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/01/climate/us-biggest-carbon-polluter-in-history-will-it-walk-away-from-the-paris-climate-deal.html

4. "Even a pandemic wouldn't create a sustainable population, study says."
http://www.newsweek.com/even-pandemic-wouldnt-create-sustainable-population-study-says-280338


BUT of course, what do all these scientists know? It would be nice if you spent some time reading DU's Environmental & Energy Group.




Edited to say I know this is a very touchy subject but I have been reading about this for decades (ever since Stanford U. Prof. Paul Ehrlich wrote about it in 1968) and I have been most distraught, even to the point of tears.
My only child, my 30yo son, has decided to never have children because of the world's situation. I will never become a grandmother. That's how seriously we take this.