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To: tejek who wrote (177250)	10/29/2003 12:01:35 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578012

Wow, what a revelation...dah.... US may suffer from overpopulation unless immigration is checked: Study manoramaonline.com immigration is checked: Study - - Washington: The US, on current trends, will suffer from overpopulation, driven in part by unchecked immigration, affecting its quality of life and nature of its society, warns an article published in a US journal. US population has more than doubled since World War II, and "at this rate, we could be on our way to 1 billion people living in the United States by the end of the century. One billion people!," the article in S News & World Report notes. US population growth, "driven in part by unchecked immigration," it says, "is already straining our healthcare and educational systems and, less noticeably-- but far more important--putting a heavy burden on our land, food production, water supply, and the quality of the air we breathe." "All these pressures on our resources will only worsen unless our leaders begin a national dialogue on the future of this country and start making the tough choices. Our future will be shaped largely by our trade policies, our environmental and economic policies, and our immigration policies," the article says. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, the article charges, are avoiding debate on these issues because they are the most difficult ones for politicians to confront. Failure to come to terms with them will "drive a wedge between all of us and a prosperous, healthy future for this country." "The us population is growing by more than 3 million each year and loses 3 million acres of farmland annually. Food and agriculture generate $40 billion a year in export income for the United States, but at the present rate, we won't be exporting food at all by 2025." Its water supply is equally at risk. David Pimentel, professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, says, "We're overpumping and overusing our water." He says that states such as Arizona are pumping aquifers at 10 times the rate at which they can be recharged. If this overpumping is left unaddressed, droughts could become a way of life in many states. The US air quality is not improving, either. Despite legislation and industry regulation, nearly half of this country lives in counties with dirty air. It is estimated that as many as 50,000 people go to hospitals each year because of air pollution. Schools in many cities are severely overcrowded. California is facing nothing less than a facilities crisis, according to the article. The strains of overcrowding are equally apparent in the US healthcare system. Hundreds of emergency rooms have closed over the past decade because of budget shortfalls, and the ones that remain open are overburdened. According to a recent study, Chicago will need nine more 500-bed hospitals by 2020. "Our population explosion," says the magazine, "not only detracts from our quality of life but threatens our liberties and freedom as well. As Cornell's Pimentel puts it, 'Back when we had, say, 100 million people in the US,when I voted, I was one of 100 million people. Today, I am one of 285 million people, so my vote and impact decreases with the increase in the population. So our freedoms also go down the drain