When development is spread over a big area, people live further from jobs and services. Dependency on the automobile increases and traffic congestion is the worst environmental menace this county faces. Fighting high density housing is a loosing battle. As population keeps growing, people need places to live or else we face a critical housing shortage. If we really want to stop growth, we should be fighting the family.
Lifestyles have to change so that raising a family is less desirable.
If more people were gay, or practiced celibacy, population growth would be less of a problem. Most parts of the world have higher population density than the United States. According to the New Book of World Rankings, the U. S. ranks below most countries in the number of people per square kilometer of land area. As of 1984, we only had 24 people per square kilometer. Japan is one of the more densely populated counties with 311 people per kilometer.