Friday, January 09, 2009
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OBAMA, HAWAII AND POPULATION DENSITY
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Posted by:
Michael Medved at
6:09 PM
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Before his inauguration, Barack Obama vacationed near his hometown of Honolulu and should take back to Washington some crucial lessons from Hawaii. On the island of Oahu, nearly a million people live on just 597 square miles, for a population density of more than 1500 per square mile—significantly more crowded than New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts or the other most densely populated states on the mainland. Nevertheless, visitors to the island always thrill at its wide open spaces--magnificent cliffs and waterfalls, vast nature preserves, lonely beaches, quaint country towns and empty farmlands stretching to the horizon.
Though 18 times more densely populated than the U.S. as a whole, Oahu offers some of the most glorious, unspoiled landscapes in the world—which indicates that that trendy hysteria about overpopulation of America is inappropriate and downright ridiculous.
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