The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
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- ISBN13: 9781594202445
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Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks yet to be to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.
In stark contrast to the rest of the world’s advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator of our long-term economic might, Joel Kotkin believes, and will make us more diverse and more competitive than any nation on planet.
Drawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and past analysis, The Next Hundred Million reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical shape and change the face of America. The majority of the additional hundred million Americans will find their homes in suburbia, though the suburbs of tomorrow will not resemble the Levittowns of the 1950s or the sprawling exurbs of the late twentieth century. The suburbs of the twenty-first century will be less reliant on major cities for jobs and additional amenities and, as a result, more energy well-organized. Suburbs will also be the melting pots of the future as more and more immigrants opt for dispersed living over crowded inner cities and the majority in the United States becomes nonwhite by 2050.
In coming decades, urbanites will flock in far greater numbers to affordable, vast, and autoreliant metropolitan areas-such as Houston, Phoenix, and Las Vegas-than to glamorous but expensive manufacturing cities, such as New York and Chicago. Kotkin also foresees that the twenty-first century will be marked by a resurgence of the American heartland, far less isolated in the digital era and a crucial source of renewable fuels and real estate for a growing population. But in both huge cities and tiny towns across the country, we will see what Kotkin calls “the new localism”-a greater emphasis on family tree ties and local community, enabled by online networks and the increasing numbers of Americans effective from home.
The Next Hundred Million provides a plain snapshot of America in 2050 by focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society-families, towns, neighborhoods, industries. It is upon the success or failure of these communities, Kotkin argues, that the American future rests.
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The man doesn’t know the exponential function and the worlds inability to sustain nonstop growth. The United Nations predicts the world will be at full capacity (that is, no more growth) by 2050. Where is the math with this guy?
We are facing a crisis in this world with overpopulation, and this book attempts to distract us from the facts. IGNORE IT.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
America doesn’t need an addition 100 million people trashing up the nation to be competitive. Competitiveness is a matter of quality not amount. The leader looks at the issue of population growth mostly from the perspective of all the “open space” America has. The authors fails to fully acknowledge the environmental issues surrounding a larger population. CO2 is only one element of pollution. Americans dump chemicals and trash into the environment. The products Americans buy require pollution generating factories to be made. The foods we eat make pollution during creation and shipment.
And we can’t depend on future technologies to solve every problem. The best thing most humans can do to help the environment is have less kids or no kids.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I admit, I have not read this book completely. But I have read Frosty Wooldridge: America on the Brink. Wooldridge’s analysis tells me that any book recommending 100.000.000 more citizens in USA at the decline of oil must be basicly flawed and deserve only the lowest score. According to the late Garrett Hardin, no problem can be solved by adding more people. The leader must have failed in the math lesson. This book seems to be nice reading for people suffering from The Cassandra Syndrome (believing just what they want to judge).
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Kotkin’s book is blatantly panglossian – at best. We don’t need another 100 million people in a nation already struggling with an overloaded infrastructure, sky-high health and education costs, and enough environmental problems to make one wish for the ‘excellent ancient days.’ Further, the ‘melting pot’ of today is broken – unable to assimilate huge numbers of illegal Mexicans with limited education and upward mobility goals and a high reproductive rate, as well as a growing number of Islamiscists. The result is added racial stress while we’re still struggling with African-American issues. Asian societies deliberately limit immigration to avoid just these very problems. Bottom-Line: Would you want to live in Mexico or an Islamic country? No need to go – Kotkin will bring it to you!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
His theory:
+ population growth
+ laissez faire free market
+ religiosity
+ American melting pot magic beans
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= one hell of a bright future
All the problems will somehow fix themselves through “sokojikara: a set aside power that allows it to overcome both the inadequacies of its leaders and the foibles of its citizens.” (Amusing how he needs a Japanese word to clarify the unique power of America). But anyway, like I said, Sokojikara! Presto! Problems be gone!
Terrible education got you down? Sokojikara that sucker! Crumbling infrastructure and too broke to fix it? Step aside! Sokojikara time. China owns your first born? Send them some sokojikara as payment.
The only question the reader is left with is who is this fool and how did he get a book deal?
My advice: Skip the book and save your money. You’re gonna need it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5