end of the century are predicted to be over 60 years old. With these facts, there is no doubt in our minds that we are in for some trouble. Over the next 50 years, the United States alone faces some population problems. What we need to do is keep the growth rate at stage 4, meaning we need to have birth and death rates low. Since the beginning of the US, we have continued to double our population in less and less time. In 1900, there were 1.65 billion people in the US and it took 135 years to double that. In 1950, there were 2.5 billion people and that doubled in only eighty years. The last estimated doubling time was in 1997 when there were 5.85 billion people and it only took forty-five years to double. The question is what will happen when population starts doubling in only two or three years? We have yet to figure out what will happen, but an estimated guess between all of us would conclude that by the time US population gets to this point, there will be so many people dying from incurable diseases that it really won’t matter. Already we have what is known as the AIDS virus which has spread world wide, and still with all the research that has been done, there is no cure. Its very scary the direction that America is headed in. We have made a lot of economic progress but nothing can stop the unstoppable.DateEst. PopulationDoubling Time in Years8000 BC5 Million59,000 years1 AD300 Million1350 years1750 (beginning of Industrial Revolution)790 Million1250 years1800980 Million165 years18501.26 Billion135 years19001.65 Billion130 years19502.5 Billion80 years19975.85 Billion45 years...
