This past summer California surpassed 40 million in population! And this leaves some people happy and some wondering. Many people wonder if we will pass 50 million or even 100 million. And according to this article the answer is “No”. According to the article, “We should consider the real possibility that our era of population growth is over – and that shrinkage may be our future.” and the article states this because California has been showing trends in people leaving to other states faster than we get them, increase in killings, decrease on births, and decrease on immigration due to Trump’s new restrictions. So although we may be at the highest of highs, we could possibly have met our peak. And our population growth rate is at 0.8 percent which is rather low, compared to 1980’s where it was 2.5 percent. But California is not alone as other states are decreasing as well.

As I stated in the other articles, increase is always good, as long as it is positive increase. People have to remain doing their part for the earth in order to continue on a good path. California has just recently faced one of its longest droughts and now with the population increase California can be right back in that same spot, unless we learn to conserve and use necessity items as needed. Economically this could be great for California, but are we going to put more money into farms so that they can produce more, and are we going to put money into water filtration systems to keep the oceans from having too much CO2 or Oxygen. Besides population increase there needs to be a plan for the things that come with increases like these.