From - Fri May 17 00:26:44 2002 From: david_l_simpson@yahoo.com (Dave Simpson) Newsgroups: alt.org.sierra-club,alt.politics.immigration,alt.politics.greens,dc.urban-planning,md.general Subject: Re: Sprawl insights Date: 16 May 2002 08:48:28 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 45 Message-ID: <23e7f86e.0205160748.1f4c5a94@posting.google.com> References: <3CD2BB3B.220172B2@earthlink.net> <3CD47B61.2E2451B4@earthlink.net> <3CD5FB93.90D81ED9@earthops.net> <23e7f86e.0205101050.6d6a58e3@posting.google.com> <665pdugtmd5rph1nuj1ltfptno2ebr8fe0@4ax.com> <23e7f86e.0205141501.5340ee45@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.184.14.144 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021564108 22931 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 15:48:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 May 2002 15:48:28 GMT Path: vienna7.his.com!news.lightlink.com!skynet.be!skynet.be!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Xref: vienna7.his.com alt.org.sierra-club:749 alt.politics.immigration:10344 alt.politics.greens:11457 dc.urban-planning:271 md.general:815 Fred Elbel wrote: > The U.S. is the world's third most populated nation. > > The U.S. has the fastest-growing population of any industrialized > nation. > > The Census Bureau says that U.S. population will double within the > lifetimes of today's children and will keep growing. Population momentum exists, just as an aging population is coming. Starting from the following figures, you can see both issues and more. http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PRB/Educators/Human_Population/Population_Growth/Population_Growth.htm http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5405#figure1 http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5405#box2 http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5405#box3 http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5405#figure7 http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5405#figure8 http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5405#figure9 http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5405#figure10 I like the graphs and the discussions that are given by PRB; I'm not knocking the Census Bureau, which I've relied on to find all kinds of fascinating things (not only, for example, the moving mean center of population through the decades but also the current population centroids in each state -- relocating the state capital of California to place it at the mean center of population -- the centroid -- would mean moving it from Sacramento to near Buttonwillow, based on the 2000 centroid). Dave Simpson