RC,
Well, actually I was commenting on the perception that the Democratic Party seems to be losing future members due to the low birth rates and migration to the exurbs.
As to your other point, I agree the global population is growing but the rate of growth has been declining for decades.
This
projection from the U.S. Census shows that population growth plateaued more than 40 years ago at 2.2 and have been declining ever since.
Although UN’s
worse rates of population growth show the population around 65 Billion around the year 2300 - and remember those growth stats are based on statistical models that have a history of inflating growth - places like Europe has been falling short of babies for 30 years.
According to UN data, the average European woman of child-bearing age is likely to have 1.4 children, down sharply from 2.0 in the early 1970s. The minimum needed for a stable population is 2.1. The current U.S. growth rate of 1% is being maintained largely by immigration.
[url=http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PRB/Educators/Human_Population/Population_Growth/Population_Growth.htm]Human Population: Fundamentals of Growth
Population Growth and Distribution[/url] predicts:
"Between 2000 and 2030, nearly 100 percent of this annual growth will occur in the less developed countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, whose population growth rates are much higher than those in more developed countries.” And then there are those “unintended consequences” we run into sometimes. The Chinese policy of one child per family has led to wide scale abortion of female fetuses in favor a male fetus as the “one child.” Will the reduction of eligible females in the next 10 – 20 years affect China’s growth rate?
How will wide spread AIDS in Africa affect growth rates on that continent?
How do you think this will play out?
(just pullin your chain)
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