This is what he wrote in The Washington Post: “Why do we need more people? For the extra traffic congestion? More crowded classrooms? Longer emergency room and Transportation Security Administration lines? Higher greenhouse gas emissions? We know how more immigration benefits big business and the Democratic Party.”
Similar ideas were in a Washington Post op-ed by Michael Anton, who is perhaps most well-known or notorious for the pro-Trump Flight 93 essay. What makes America great is that we have low population density.” Traffic congestion, lack of access to open spaces, smaller houses, et cetera. Here’s his response to the idea of a billion Americans: “Country is too crowded as it is, but clearly if we got to a billion, the quality of life for most Americans would go down. When I tweeted that, he said, “Well, 300 million is a better goal.” I said, “Why? That’s fewer than today?” It came from Robert Atkinson, a DC-based innovation and tech policy guy who has been on the podcast. Pethokoukis: I don’t know if I saw that you had this book coming out or if I had a psychic flash about this topic, but in November of last year, I tweeted, “A billion Americans by the year 2100 seems like a good goal.” I got a lot of negative reactions to that general proposition, but one response stood out. You can download the episode here, and don’t forget to subscribe to my podcast Portions that were cut from the original podcast. He is also the author of the newly released One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger.įollows is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation, including brief
Matthew Yglesias is the co-founder of Vox.com, where he is currently a senior correspondent and the host of Vox’s “The Weeds” podcast. His plan to reach one billion Americans by 2100. Political Economy, I sat down with Matthew Yglesias to take a deeper dive into We can take to encourage people to have more kids? On the latest episode of Should a more expansive immigration policy look like? And are there worthwhile steps Population make this country more innovative and dynamic, or would it mire usĭown in traffic jams and infrastructure shortages? And if a more populousĪmerica is desirable, how should policymakers go about achieving it? What Is a bigger America a better America? Would a bigger
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