Area Population
Times have changed since the 1970s, when a billboard in Seattle read “the last person to leave Seattle please turn out the lights”. The expansion of Microsoft and Boeing has spurred an economic growth in the area. The 12-county Puget Sound region, including Seattle and Tacoma, has quadrupled to four million people since the 1950s, and the state predicts one million more residents by 2025. This has major environmental implications, including pollution runoff and the altering of important shorelines. “One-third of Puget Sound shoreline has already been altered”.
Read more about this topic: Environmental Issues In Puget Sound
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