We must act now to stabilize our own population size, and perhaps even reduce it, if we are to have any hope of saving our environment and diversity of species and maintaining our quality of life in the long term. Today, the U.S. is the fastest growing industrialized nation in the world and we are just beginning to pay the high costs of resulting environmental degradation. The United States is the third most populated nation in the world, trailing only China and India. U.S. population grows by nearly 3 million people annually , making the U.S. the fastest growing industrialized nation in the world. Every five years we add the population equivalent of another Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and Houston combined .
Population growth drives urban sprawl which adversely affects our lives in a variety of ways.
For example, the average American driver spends 443 hours per year behind the wheel. The population of the U.S. is growing far too rapidly for us to be able to afford any delays in implementing an effective, comprehensive solution. In a country that grows by 58,000 weekly, even a day of inactivity can prove costly. All Rights Reserved.