(09-13-2020 02:35 PM)colohank Wrote:  

(09-13-2020 01:00 PM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  

(09-13-2020 12:15 PM)chess Wrote:  The census is taking place right now. Illinois is losing population.

Florida now has more people than New York. The Empire State has gone from 45 electoral votes in 1950 to a projected 28 after 2020. North Carolina will overtake Ohio in the 2030 census.

A candidate in 2024 that wins four states (CA, AZ, TX, FL) will have half the electoral votes needed to secure the White House.

Anyone who celebrates population growth for any reason has his head up his bung. There are already too many of us competing for dwindling resources, polluting air and water, and getting in each other's way. The year I was born, the population of the US was 140 million. Now it's 330 million. Do you think things will be better when it's 500 million? 700 million? One billion or more?

Welcome to Bangladesh.

Good Lord, that's ignorant. Every single documented population increase in history has been followed by increases in consumption per capita. Even Bangladesh (although admittedly their experience hasn't been as good as most). Have you read anything about what life was like for the average Indian/Bangladeshi 100 years ago? I have Bangladeshi graduate students, and they say their country is better now than it ever has been.