I have been to Juneau once...very lovely area...and VERY limited in carrying capacity. Houses go right up the hill until it is too steep to build...at least tourists can't just barrel thru in their cars....(don't think we drove but twice in a week...up to the glacier and to the airport to leave)

Ebbie..I am 61, and I remember the stories about the 'limitless' ocean and the vast tracts of jungle in Brazil and the new strains of rice that would feed us all...*sigh*

McGrath...the population of 'some' states here is going down, too...but we get VERY large numbers of immigrants (legal and illegal)from countries that DO have a problem...(one is just south of us)...and on this island we call earth, it is eventually the population as a whole that is relevant. If overpopulation in Asia, etc., continues, they will find their way to Europe...somehow...

We in America, being so large, have MUCH to do and answer for...but it will take SOME global inititives to solve it all.