Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 23:22:20 +0000
From: Mark Jones <Jones_M-AT-netcomuk.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-I: Thorstein Veblen on the fur trade and American Indians


Carrol said:

> But then there are some problems. The current population of the U.S. is
> (what?) 250 million. Probably for the long run that is too many. Probably
> around 100 million would be about right. But we are not radical ecologists
> who seemingly want us (who "us"?) simply to let that surplus of 150
> million die from starvation or whatever. In other words, it is going to
> take a couple of centuries for that population to fall to its desirable
> level, and in the mean time we have a lot of people to feed.
>

But the real problem is that the US Bureau of Censuses predicts that the
US population will rise to *500m* within sixty years and that is
*excluding* the effects of illegal immigration.

Mark



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