Is the U.S. full? Ecological Footprint Reveals an Inconvenient Truth
Published:
Thu, Apr 11th 2019 @ 2:42 pm EDT by Rob Harding
President Trump's hyperbolic comments about the country being "full" were followed by numerous media responses, like The New York Times article by The Upshot's Neil Irwin and Emily Badger, as if it needed to be explained to anyone that the country isn't actually "bursting at the seams" with people.
Regardless of the scope or intent of Trump's comments, the emotional discussion of the country's "fullness" that has followed is missing the big picture:
It's not about how many people a country can contain but how many it can sustain.
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/us-full-ecological-footprint-reveals-inconvenient-truth
