Dealing with Population Booms

2007 saw 4.3 million births in the United States, topping the greatest population increase in the 1950s.  In other words, we're increasing our population.  And that doesn't include increases from immigration.

Usually these kinds of topics are sensitive.  But population issues impact economics, culture, the environment.  For instance, if we're worried about how to pay Social Security and Medicare for the aging Baby Boomers, what are we going to do for this whole new generation?  

And, from an environmental standpoint, no matter what we try to do to reduce carbon emissions, frankly, increases in population increase our contribution to the human enhancements to global climate change.  More housing, more transportation, more food...

The news of the population increase was buried.  And the actual article focused on the high percentage of births by unwed mothers (40%) rather than the mind numbing idea that there are 4.3 million new Americans (not including immigration numbers).  

Where is the discussion about what are we going to do with this boom in relation to a life that seems to be going bust?