Building in Harm’s Way: America’s Population Growth Pattern is Making It More Vulnerable to Global Warming
The United States has been experiencing one of the fastest population growth rates in the developed world for decades. The US is also considered to be a nation acutely at risk from climate change and the impacts that it will bring,and America’s vulnerability to global warming is only getting worse. These two trends are related. Amidst all the talk of climate adaptation and directing societies to build up greater resilience to climate change, the US is moving in the opposite direction, expanding its population and accommodating infrastructure most aggressively in regions at greatest risk of future climate disasters. We’re already seeing the results of this utter lack of forward thinking; for example, note the recent string of hurricanes that devastated some of the fastest-growing areas of the Southeast.
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Too Many People Chasing Too Few Healthcare Providers: How Population Growth Can Make You Sick
A few years back, my wife had something of a minor yet potentially serious health scare. We knew her issue didn’t constitute an emergency requiring an ambulance, but we needed a doctor to look at her sooner rather than later because it was the kind of health concern that could quickly worsen and lead to lifelong complications. So, I called a doctor to see if we could make an appointment to get her checked out. Yes, the doctor would be pleased to check her out, we were told – in three months.
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Disease Pandemics and the Population Factor
It’s been only a few years since the world exited the height of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, but we’re now facing a potentially deadlier new pandemic threat. This threat stems from a virus that health professionals have been monitoring for two decades: H5N1, more commonly known as bird flu or avian influenza. Once mostly the bane of chicken farmers, H5N1 has now infected domesticated animals and wild species worldwide. It’s now jumping from dairy cows to humans. Each day the threat grows worse. As with COVID-19, bird flu infections could quickly escalate into a pandemic, facilitated by our over-populated world.
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In Praise of Population Decline
To most Americans, a falling birth rate is not viewed as a bad thing. Public opinion polling shows that most people on Earth want to live alongside fewer people, not more.
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Crowded Classrooms, Teacher Shortages – Demographic Changes Could Help Our Nation’s Troubled Schools, But Only If We Let Them
Schools in thousands of school districts across the country are burdened by too many students and not enough teachers to take care of them all. Classrooms are packed, halls are jammed, and children are forced to stand in the aisles of their school buses.
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Japan’s Ride into the Demographic Danger Zone – and Why It’s Nothing to Fear
Japan’s population is falling. This isn’t news to you – almost everyone already knows this. And it isn’t all that unusual – lots of countries are losing population, but the rate at which Japan’s population is contracting is worth noticing.
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Will 2022 Be the First Year of U.S. Negative Population Growth?
Annual population growth in the United States now stands at a record low. Will COVID-19 send it into early reverse? It’s possible, though far from certain. On December 21, the Census Bureau reported that the United States’ population expanded by just 0.1% last year,
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Don’t Call It a Crisis: The Natural Explanation Behind Collapsing Birth Rates
Americans are having far fewer children than in the past, as a recent report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows. The media has declared this a “crisis” that demands government attention. In reality, the plummeting birth rate is a natural and inevitable result of overpopulation and overcrowding. Science has already proven this. Therefore, the only correct action U.S. policymakers should take is no action whatsoever.
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