Fairfax County homeless population falls as coalition grows - Washington Post
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:16:48 GMT+00:00
falls as coalition grows Washington Post Following a plan developed in 2007, an annual count of the county's homeless population in January tallied slightly more than 1500, according to Fairfax ...

Census results could shift voting boundaries, power - Fairfaxtimes.com
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:59:36 GMT+00:00
Fairfaxtimes.com But an initial assessment of population shifts in the state suggests Fairfax County is not likely to gain any seats in the House of Delegates or the state ...

Wave of Islamophobia Sweeping US Is Repeat of Anti-Japanese Hysteria After ... - Firedoglake (blog)
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:31:50 GMT+00:00
Firedoglake (blog) This was because Japanese-Americans were over a third of Hawaii's population and were too vital to the islands' economy. Instead, the whole of Hawaii ... Challenging Islamophobia: An Assessment of the "Ground Zero Mosque" Debate Monthly Review Inside Park 51 elan: The Guide to Global Muslim Culture

What kind of problems result for population growth in both developing countries and our own? Which is greater?
Q. Many people regard the rapid population growth of developing countries as our most serious environmental problem. Others think that the population growth in developed countries, though smaller, is actually a greater threat to the environment. What kinds of problems result from population growth in developing countries and in industrialized countries? Which do you think is the greater threat, and why?
Asked by addysmom2005 - Tue Jun 15 00:46:27 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. First, the environment is not and has never been a stable condition. It is a myth that the environment is a stable condition. It is a myth that any but only the most remote places on Earth have not been completely changed drastically by humanity, already, hundreds of times. Take Australia for example; soon after people moved in 70,000 yrs ago, it was deforested, 10 foot tall man-eating birds and giant sloths, etc, were wiped out. Nothing is ever the same as it was, and can not ever remain the same. Giant cave bears, tigers, and whooly mammoths ...wiped out. Easter Island, wiped out and deforested. Corn farming in America for 20,000 yrs, left deserts. Ferile pigs wiped out 1,000,000 species all over. Rats! Goats don't belong! Cattle! All… [cont.]
Answered by Ben Franklin - Tue Jun 15 01:19:53 2010

What is the minimal population necessary for a modern society?
Q. Can a population smaller than 2 milion people sustain the levels of a modern western style society? thnx Mythological Beast I think you are also talking about the survival of the species here! A minimal regret-society is based on 10 milion people but is this the minimum to sustain the society itself or the species?
Asked by daanlevi - Tue Nov 6 15:58:43 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Grog is wrong. There is definitely a minimum requirement. Just the transportation issue necessary to turn raw goods into finished products requires that we have a minimum supply of people in the various places where the materials are mined and produced, plus a bunch to move it from one place to another, maintain roads, etc. I don't know if anyone's calculated it, but there are two ways to approach it. If you wonder how many people it would take to maintain small settlements then you have a smaller number than if you calculate how many people we would need to survive a [plague|meteor strike|WW3|insert disaster here] for us to not fall back into feudalism. Small settlements would have appropriately sized infrastructure, whereas we'd… [cont.]
Answered by Mythological Beast - Tue Nov 6 16:16:30 2007

How has the dolphin population increased/decreased during the past 10 to 20 years? Any specific numbers?
Q. I have to do a project for school and I want to make a graph of how the dolphin population has increased/decreased in the past 10 or 20 years. Does anybody have any numbers? And if they've increased, why are they still considered endangered? I can't find it anywhere on the internet.
Asked by Hereigns56 - Mon Apr 20 16:05:11 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I'm having a hard time getting solid figures for the dolphin population. From what I read on the websites I found it sounds like even the experts are having a hard time answering that question. Most sources I saw said they don't know how many dolphins are living in the wild. I found a few numbers on the sea world website but their newest data was from 1995. Good luck with your project.
Answered by jaimieneb - Mon Apr 20 16:15:19 2009