Florida population growing again - bad thing

UF writes about more people moving to Florida as "a hopeful sign". We already have way too many people. More people is bad for Florida. More people means more destruction of the environment, more water shortages, more polution, more crowding, more traffic, more urban sprawl. Some people benefit financially from more people, but all of us suffer from a deteriorating quality of life. Florida can flourish without more people. Florida does not need more development to grow people's quality of life, just the opposite. Florida needs to go to work on improving what is here now, environmental restoration, infrastructure, servicing existing residents and tourism. Say no to more population growth. We need population reduction.

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Florida expected to start adding residents again after population decline

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It's a small bounce, but Florida's population should rebound this year from its first loss in more than half a century in a hopeful sign for the struggling state economy, new estimates from the University of Florida show.

The Sunshine State is expected to add about 23,000 residents between April 1, 2009, and April 1, 2010, following a loss of almost 57,000 residents the previous year, according to population projections released today by UF's Bureau of Economic and Business Research.

"Based on changes in electric customer data, we believe Florida's population has increased slightly over the past year," said bureau Director Stan Smith who led the research. "This may be an indication the state's economy is no longer declining at the rate it had been before."

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http://news.ufl.edu/2010/03/02/florida-population-4/