http://www.census.gov/popclock/
What I never seem to hear anyone talk about is how large US population ought to be. What is the optimum size?
What is the impact on environmental issues of a growing population? Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled on a water-rights issue between Oklahoma and Texas... a dispute precipitated by population growth and development in the Lone Star State.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/13/supreme-court-water-texas-oklahoma-compacts/2382849/
In Colorado and elsewhere in the West, wild fires once again are blazing out of control. Homes are being burned. Should these homes ever have been built in those forests in the first place?
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/13/18932265-two-killed-as-colorado-wildfires-destroy-360-homes-force-evacuations-in-colorado-springs?lite>1=43001
A similar question is finally being asked on the Jersey Shore in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/No-Help-Jersey-Shore-Second-Homeowners-Sandy-210374601.html
I simply do not understand how we can conduct a comprehensive debate on immigration policy, or on environmental policy for that matter, without serious consideration (at the center of such discussions) of population growth and where we want US population to be in 10, 20, 50, 100 years. Closely related to this overarching issue is, Where do we humans belong and where should we stay away from?
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