Honest talk needed on population growth

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: July 27, 2007 | Copyright information

'POPULATION Explosion" was a call to arms for American environmentalists 40 years ago, amid fears that baby boomers would have big families. That didn't happen, but hyper-population-growth is occurring now due to large-scale immigration.

California has just projected a population of 60 million by mid- century, up 5 million from its forecast of only three years ago. We're talking about a 75 percent leap between 2000 and 2050 -- by any measure, a population explosion.

That's the ...

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