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Originally Posted by llamaorama
It’s only a 23 pct increase.
Saying there should be fewer people in the US to combat climate change assumes the developing world won’t develop. Or that they won’t have fewer kids here than there.
More people boosts our GDP and domestic market size, which insulated us from the influences of globalism and the soft power of rivals like China, so it’s ironic that the right doesn’t like population growth from immigration. Small countries are burdened by the overreach of other nations laws and can’t protect the rights of their citizens. If a foreign country dominates your economy, you can end up being forced to adopt their regulations and laws over your own because otherwise they can pull the rug out from under you.
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Only 23%? The absolute number is more relevant that the percentage. That's 72 million more people. That's almost 2 more California's worth of people. Where are they going to go? I don't think Montana is suddenly going to have 50 million more people. They are going to cram into already expensive cities.
No other countries will develop the way the US does with sprawl. What makes you assume the rest of the world will ever develop to US standards? The world doesn't have enough resources to support that. China can barely take enough resources from Africa and South America as it is to support their population. If Africa ever developed to 1st world standards, it s