It’s nearly official. As is widely reported in this country, the Census Bureau estimates the population of the United States will reach 300 million early Tuesday morning (let’s all count together now). The estimate assumes that, on average, an American is born every 7 seconds, one dies every 13 seconds and the nation gains an immigrant every 31 seconds.
This is a colossal moment in this nation’s history. In 1967, the U.S. population was a mere 200 million and it’s only taken 39 years to reach a third of a billion. CNN, the New York Times, and many other prominent news agencies published editorials discussing the growing population and the shrinking landscape all asking one simple question: where is everyone going to fit? Like many, I certainly don’t have the answer, but some of that wide-open farm land in the west is looking mighty tasty.
In today’s world there’s living and dying. And, for some, it’s not all it should be. See below in this edition of Monday’s links:
- This American Life: Then & Now
- By the numbers, with pictures. CNN.com
- Bono launches U.S. Red campaign for AIDS in Africa
- Red iPods, cell phones, t-shirts, shoes and more. All for the fight against AIDS.
- To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered
- I’m married, and I love it. But for the first time ever, us folks who are hitched are in the minority.
- A Soldier comes home, too early yet too late
- The war in Iraq reaches all the way to the farthest stretches of the U.S., in Barrow, Alaska
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