Reply #12: Population shouldn't be growing at all.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

Touting 2% or 1% as a "good" growth rate is ridiculous. The earth is choking under the weight of billions of people. And more and more people around the world are adopting US consumption habits. What is needed, I'm sorry to say, is negative population growth everywhere, along with us Americans curtailing our wasteful ways. Sadly, most humans are too vain to pass up the opportunity to replicate themselves so we will breed ourselves into extinction in a few decades.