WHERE WILL WE PUT ONE BILLION

 That's right. A population of one billion in the good old US of A Please be patient. All of this will come together. Eventually. I hope. And this entry is graphics heavy. And you may see some of them again. 

There is a citizen of this country. BA from Harvard. Wiki doesn't say what the degree was for. However a little research suggests an honors degree in philosophy. His career has been in blogging and some form of commentary journalism. His Wickipedia bio does not say where he was born, but I suspect born in the city and he doesn't get out of the city bery much.

Anyway, America isn't nearly full enough. It can hold another six or seven HUNDRED million people. We just need to make sure there's support for child care, build more houses, make sure the mddle class gets good paying jobs. He reminds me a little of Plato and his perfect forms. 

OK lets look at the map and that little color guide to the left. Dark broun and light brown. That's desert and scrub land. Doesn't get a lot of rain and for the last few years has been getting even less. That little piece of US paradise is in critical drought. It's also the par of the country that has encouraged immigration from states that have actual seasons, enough rain keep the lawns green, and snow. This covers Arizona, New Mexico, parts of Utah, Nevada and California. The yellow is temperate steppe. That's the Central Valley of California and most of the middle of the country. Rainfall varies some agriculture actually depends of the winter snow for some sgriculture. The Central Valley has an aquifer underneath but water use outstrips the recharge from the rain tht isn't fallling. The blue green and greens are some form of mountain foresst. 

A topo map of the United States. The greens are relatively low elevations the browns with all the wrinkles are either mountains or SW corner of the country. High, dry, low population.

And this is Oregon. the little green areas are the lowest elevations. The purples and light blues are the highest elevations. And that's where most of the people are especially up in the Portland area on the Columbis Rivers. 

So if anyone is totally insane enough to try to increase the population by nearly Seven hundred million people divided evenly between the states where in the name of all that's holy are we going to put them. Sorry folks we are just about maxed out. Water is allocated. The high plateu may look level but it isn't And acces from the western part of the state to the east is limited. More later on that.