THE TALK
Points To Ponder From "One Billion Americans!”

America is marching mindlessly toward a population of one billion.

America’s population has grown 104 of the last 105 years; the exception was 1918 during World War One and when 675,000 died in America from a flu pandemic.

America’s population grew by 76 million during the first half of the 20th century and by 130 million during the second half. At that rate of population growth acceleration, America’s population will be 900 million by the end of the 21st century.

America is the third most populous nation in the world behind India and China and has the fastest growing population of any first-world country. We add roughly 3.3 million people per year or 33 million people per decade. Just think, every thirty years we add nearly 100 million people!

Can you visualize future generations living with one billion Americans? Can you visualize a doubling or tripling of traffic, of sprawl, of crowds? Perhaps a science-fiction novelist or film director can. I can’t. Will future generations accept an America that looks more like India or China than today’s America? I doubt it.

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