Transcript Population Projection Project

Population Projection Project
Ali Sherer, Corey Brassard,
Kristen Oscarson, Marc
Volpicelli, Bashar Shehada, Alan
Hall
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Ideas for Today and Tomorrow
We need to control the
population growth for a better
tomorrow.
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Our Future
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Population
2050
2030
2010
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1990
80000
60000
40000
20000
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Population
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The projected population in
the year 2050 is 75,050.
There will be 1,158 people per
square mile. This is
approximately three times the
current population.
This will lead to a tax
increase, pollution problems,
urbanization and much more.
If we don’t do something soon
we will look like New York
City!
If our population reaches its
expected amount we will
become an urban area.
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Crime Rate
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No one even feels safe walking
down the street at night
knowing that the crime rate
has gone up.
On the Coventry/West
Warwick line there will be
graffiti and gangs roaming the
streets.
We will have more robberies,
gangs, drug smuggling etc. No
one will be safe.
With all the crime and
violence, the town will need to
hire more police officers,
which will raise taxes.
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Watching Out For One Another
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The amount of people that do drugs in
Coventry is very low and the kids that
grow up and leave this town are usually
well-rounded individuals.
The teachers in Coventry really get to
know the students well and no matter
what each student needs the teacher
is always there for them.
With a larger populations everyone
won’t know everyone and the education
system will definitely not be as good as
it is now.
When your kid starts, “hanging out
with the wrong crowd,” who will be
there to tell you? There will be many
more students in classes and teachers
won’t have the time to get to know
each and every one.
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Environment
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There will need to be many
more homes and other things
like grocery stores, dumps,
fast food restaurants and
Walmarts taking up land
space.
To make room for these
things trees will have to be
cut down. When you cut down
trees, it ruins the habitat for
many species of animals.
Coventry has parks, trees and
animals. We almost have the
perfect little community.
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Traffic Congestion
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With the expected population Coventry
will have to add new roads and widen the
current ones.
Coventry will have to buy the needed land
to add and widen the roads and then
actually build them. This will costs
hundreds of thousands of taxpayers
dollars.
If the population triples so will the
number of cars. Route 3 is currently four
lanes wide. With the expected population
it will have to be twelve lanes wide. That
will take up a lot of space.
Coventry will have three times the amount
of current car accidents, making the
roads more dangerous and many lives will
be lost.
The pollution caused by the cars will also
triple in Coventry and this will create
smog like in Mexico City.
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Taxes
• I am assuming all of you
are aware that if taxes get
raised it is very unlikely
you will be elected again.
No one wants high taxes
and the town pays social
workers, teachers,
firefighters, and police
officers to do their jobs.
• If the population rises
they will need more people
to do these jobs costing
the taxpayers more money.
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Stopping the Growth
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You can limit how many
building permits you send
out each year or make it so
you have to own at least 2
acres to build a house. We
need to keep the population
of Coventry small so we
don’t end up looking like
what we most fear.
• Set more laws to limit the
growth.
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Thank You
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Thank you for listening to
our presentation and what
we had to say about the
population growth problem
in Coventry.
• We hope you take our
suggestions to the problem
seriously and into
consideration.
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