Census population estimates 2011-2019

[Lord Halifax]

In the new release today, CA only grew by 0.3% last year, the lowest population growth rate since 1900:

http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Estimates/E-2/documents/PressReleaseJuly2019.pdf

200.000 more Californians left for other states than moved into the state last year ... (this was compensated by an international immigration surplus and of course a birth surplus).

Tragic. And it's all due to dumb late 20th century zoning laws. If these hadn't been passed and CA kept growing at its pre 1985 clip, we would have 50 million people already.

Ehhh, this is a good development in fact.

Population growth largely sucks and leads to the destruction of CA and the planet.

Stop being such a growth fetishist.

Lol no. People are either going to like in California or somewhere else, and I'd rather see them here. Besides, more people in places like CA and fewer in places like TX is good for the planet, and CA can bring down its total emissions with growth because increased population density will reduce our dependence on automobiles and so on. CA has only gotten better with growth, and it will continue to do so. The key is to minimize sprawl and resource use, not growth. Furthermore, any socially responsible person supports population growth in the west even if they want the world's population to shrink. We're simply more equipped to handle a billion people than India or sub Saharan Africa. It's racist to think otherwise.

The Western lifestyle is extremely resource consuming (if you want to lower global CO2 and methane emissions the last thing you want is more Americans), so it's definitely not a good thing to have population growth in the West instead of Africa or India.

It's a fantasy that population growth will reduce dependency on automobiles, that aint happening in America.