opebo
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« on: September 11, 2007, 02:11:25 PM » |
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I think population growth will stay around the current level or could even increase slightly. I think the assumptions of a leveling off or decline in the growth rate are a bit presumptuous.
Growth in much of the world is leveling off - including here in Asia - or even verging on declines. But I think the US can and will keep its growth rate up in a number of ways.
1) birthrates will not decline - we have been through the prosperity-induced decline in birthrates already, but the newly impoverished working class, particularly hispanics, will keep reproducing.
2) Immigration - will remain high, and the owners want it that way as it is better for profits.
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