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Monday, October 23, 2006
8:37:00 AM EDT
Hearing A Stream With Bright Fish -- Harold Budd/Brian Eno/Daniel Lanois
As many of you may remember, last Tuesday the US officially passed the 300 million population mark. At the time I wondered when we'd hit 400 million; LiveScience says currrent predictions have that happening in 2043, and speculates what the US will be like then:
...a typical American neighborhood that year will be something like this:
More than likely it will be located in the South or West, despite scarce water resources and gas prices that make $3 a gallon look like a bargain. Barely half of the community's residents will be white, and one in four whites will be senior citizens. Nearly one in four people will be Latino and multiracial Americans will be commonplace.
Demographers say some of today's trends will continue: Rust Belt cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh and Cleveland will probably keep losing population, though some argue that lower costs of living may attract people who can telecommute to jobs elsewhere.
Hey, that's why I live in rural Ohio now.
One of the interesting things about my little county, in fact, is that its population has remained basically the same (about 50,000 or so) for the last 50 years; basically since the US population went from under 200 million to 300 million. I'll be interested to see if gets any larger 37 years from now when our 400 millionth citizen makes the scene.
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8:37:00 AM EDT
Hearing A Stream With Bright Fish -- Harold Budd/Brian Eno/Daniel Lanois
Living in America... in 2043
As many of you may remember, last Tuesday the US officially passed the 300 million population mark. At the time I wondered when we'd hit 400 million; LiveScience says currrent predictions have that happening in 2043, and speculates what the US will be like then:
...a typical American neighborhood that year will be something like this:
More than likely it will be located in the South or West, despite scarce water resources and gas prices that make $3 a gallon look like a bargain. Barely half of the community's residents will be white, and one in four whites will be senior citizens. Nearly one in four people will be Latino and multiracial Americans will be commonplace.
Demographers say some of today's trends will continue: Rust Belt cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh and Cleveland will probably keep losing population, though some argue that lower costs of living may attract people who can telecommute to jobs elsewhere.
Hey, that's why I live in rural Ohio now.
One of the interesting things about my little county, in fact, is that its population has remained basically the same (about 50,000 or so) for the last 50 years; basically since the US population went from under 200 million to 300 million. I'll be interested to see if gets any larger 37 years from now when our 400 millionth citizen makes the scene.
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WEll....the country will get hit one day too...time to put some birth incentives for the tax payer....once they cut out welfare....which I'm not for but beleive in time constraints but....teenagers will think twice about having a baby.....-Raven
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pish I'll be dead by then, I don't care
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I actually live in a village.
10/24/06 11:36 AM
-Dan
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