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Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan 
If you mean moods on increases in population specifically, I'm guessing most people would blame that issue (and rightfully so) on Illegal Immigration.
People here don't worry about urban sprawl much though in general. There is plenty of extra land.
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Would they be putting the blame in the right place though. According to Wikipedia in 2006 there were 14 births per 1000 people and 8 deaths per thousand. Immigration is placed at 800,000 legal immigrants and 1 million illegals per annum. So illegal immigrants are only a third of the growth.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture puts the amount of farmland lost every year at 2.2 million acres. With global food shortages already and a projected 3 billion mouths to feed over the next forty years, surely the loss of 80 million acres of prime farmland between now and 2010 in a stable country with dependable harvests is something to be concerned about?