US Population to Top 300 Million

An anonymous reader writes "The number of Americans will surpass 300 million this month, a milestone that raises environmental impact questions for the only major industrial nation whose population is increasing substantially. The US census bureau says the 300 million mark will be reached 39 years after US population topped 200 million and 91 years after it exceeded 100 million. That makes US the third most populous country behind china and india. It is noteworthy that sheer number of human beings do not necessarily have the heaviest impact on the environment. Instead environmental impact is a calculation that involves population, affluence and technology. The US consumes nearly 25% of the world's energy though it has only 5% of the world's population and has the highest per capita oil consumption worldwide. Each American produces about 2.3 kg of trash a day, a rate about 5 times that in developing countries."

Comments

Already???

[tygerstripes]

Shit! Quick, go to a school and start a killing spree! It's the only way to keep this thing under control.

Re:It's all the immigrants

[tygerstripes]

we welcome people looking for a better life

...which is rather cruelly misleading on your part. Unsporting, I say.

Come on... lets rally and beat this number

[GfxGeek]

"The US consumes nearly 25% of the worlds energy though it has only 5 % of the worlds population..." We can do better than that. Thanks to ATI / nVidia and their 1.21 gigawatt next gen GPUs, I'm confident we can shatter this number by next year.

Re:AGAIN cue the anarcho-capitalists

[Mayhem178]

Just like the last story, cue the anarcho-capitalists who will ask "Would you rather have it any other way?"

Yeah, they probably will. But would you rather have it any other way?

State of New England

[Kadin2048]

Everyone knows that Rhode Island really isn't a state, it just a joke perpetuated by New Englanders on the rest of the country for their own amusement.

New England is really one state, it just gets twelve Senatorial votes and has a particularly byzantine internal tax code.

Re:State of New England

[Captain Splendid]

With shenanigans like that, I can now easily see how your country so easily let a functioning retard become president.

Re:US isn't the only one growing

[Iamthefallen]

Since I first came to Canada 10 years ago, I've seem the population grow from 28 million to 32.

Yeah, but 4 million Canadian is only like 1.3 million American.

Re:Gratuitous US Bashing Increases Pagehits

[cafucu]

Would somebody PLEASE change that wiki article to make the US look better?!?!