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05-07-2009, 02:07 AM
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Ideal population
What should Colorado's stable and sustainable population be?
Please be specific, assigning not only a number but also reason why this is so, and what level of resource use this would allow everyone (ie: standard of living, and consumption). If you wish, also mention the ideal number for any given county.
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05-07-2009, 07:57 AM
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To live as we do now, no more than 6M or so (since we are at around 4M now AFAIK). Anything more than that and standard of living will go down and more natural resources will be destroyed. Basically we will destroy what makes Colorado Colorado IMO. Those figures at 3x our current population and more are something I hope never happens - it would be the end of the natural beauty (and livability) of this state. For reference see southern CA - specifically LA. Of course some say it has happened already  |
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05-07-2009, 10:10 AM
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I want Pueblo to pass the 500,000 mark, and to be honost I would not mind if we were 1 million people. I think that would give us more to do here and make our downtown awsome. So this is why I pick 12 million as I know Pueblo will not grow in a vacume...
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05-07-2009, 10:12 AM
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I do want to know why someone put 100,000 people, considering Pueblo is 150,000......
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05-07-2009, 10:18 AM
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I believe the populations is right at 5,000,000 right now. It was 4.3 in 2000, and 3.3 in 1990. So the state has seen steady growth at a fairly high rate. I think that the state published a study that speculates the population will level off at about 7.5 million in/around 2035. I'm not sure how they come to this conclusion, as a computer model can never fully account for human behavior, but it does seem like a logical number. Now that I mentioned the study, I feel obligated to find it and post a link  give me time, if you would please! |
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05-07-2009, 10:51 AM
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About 6.4M, unless major (and currently un-anticipated) new water solutions are found.
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05-07-2009, 11:50 AM
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I chose 6.4 million too... Not sure why though, sorry.
Maybe I'm just trying too hard to get to my 1,000th post...
Last edited by treedonkey; 05-07-2009 at 01:19 PM..
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05-07-2009, 03:32 PM
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If most of the latecomers to Colorado knew what Colorado was like when it was less then 2 million, there would be no one (except maybe Josseppie, but I don't count him) who would like this state to be any more populous than it already is. The people who want it just to be more and more populous just don't know how WONDERFUL a place it was before it started getting overrun. Either that, or they have a personal pecuniary interest in the development that is killing the place.
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05-07-2009, 05:42 PM
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I dont care if Colorado stays the same, I just want Pueblo to grow. So we can add our million people and the rest of the state can stay the same then it will only be about 4 million people.
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05-07-2009, 06:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jazzlover
If most of the latecomers to Colorado knew what Colorado was like when it was less then 2 million, there would be no one (except maybe Josseppie, but I don't count him) who would like this state to be any more populous than it already is. The people who want it just to be more and more populous just don't know how WONDERFUL a place it was before it started getting overrun. Either that, or they have a personal pecuniary interest in the development that is killing the place.
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When Colorado last had below 2 million people was the 1960s. Incidentally the entire United States' population was around 180,000,000. Now the country's population is over 300,000,000 so it is only natural that Colorado will have a significantly higher population as well. It is still a great place, but the growth is inevitable. |
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