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Table of Contents
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A
Vital and Attainable Change
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1
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Growth
Pains
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8
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Sprawl and Vanishing Open Space
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8
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Road Congestion
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16
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Water Worries
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29
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Treasure the Chesapeake
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38
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Growth
Pressures
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47
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Washington Area Population Growth
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47
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National Population Growth
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50
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Choices
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54
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Growth
and Economic Wellbeing
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56
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Local
Job Growth and Local Unemployment
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56
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Population Growth and Economic Growth
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59
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An
Ethical Threshold
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64
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Growth
Politics
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68
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Toward
a Better Future
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76
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Restraining
the Growth Machine
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76
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Confronting Our National Population Growth
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86
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A
Life-Changing Event
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100
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Appendices
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106
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Appendix
A – Growth Machine Organizations
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Appendix B – Population Projection Information
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Appendix C – Dependency Ratios
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Appendix D – Declining Per Capita VMT Growth
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Endnotes
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| "New congestion study shows remedies working, but traffic jams still growing."
Texas Transportation Institute
September 30, 2003
Read Urban Mobility Report
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Author Tom Horton and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation call on environmental groups everywhere to put population stabilization on the national agenda.
Turning the Tide, Island Press, 2003
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