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The basic notion of this book is appallingly conceited. The last thing that anywhere on Earth needs is MOAR PEOPLE! And worrying about whether America is "winning", or can stay "on top forever", is not only an infantile urge, it also blindly ignores the real challenges facing not just Americans but citizens of every country in the world. This opinion has nothing to do with immigration policy and everything to do with the moral bankruptcy of suggesting that we need to go big or lose whatever bizarre planetary reality show competition he thinks is occurring. We're all facing an existential crisis, no doubt, but it's got nothing to do with "not enough Americans". Get that jingoist garbage out of here so we can actually try to make progress with the real problems: unprecedented loss of biodiversity, deforestation, irreversible resource depletion, and being hopelessly addicted to a globalized fossil fuel economy and an inherently unsustainable and corrupt market run by and for financiers, which exploits human labor and is rapidly grinding the planet into oblivion. Oh, also, American culture already produces one of the most disproportionately environmentally destructive societies in the world (the per capita ecological footprint in the US is shameful - we're "winners" on that graph). So literally the worst thing for all humans, collectively, is for more of them to be American and subscribing to the great consumerist, entitled, selfish, pathological nightmare of a culture that we keep pretending is The Best, while the world crumbles. No, sorry sir, we do *not* need more of any of that, which is exactly what you're endorsing, because a grow-to-win agenda will absolutely amplify every one of the existing mechanisms and phenomena that both got the world into the mess that it's in and is accelerating it unabated.