Negative Population Growth, Inc. (NPG) is a national nonprofit membership organization. It was founded in 1972 to educate the American public and political leaders about the devastating effects of overpopulation on our environment, resources and standard of living. We believe that our nation is already vastly overpopulated in terms of the long-range carrying capacity of its resources and environment.

We urgently need, therefore, a National Population Policy with the goal of eventually stabilizing our population size at a sustainable level, far below today's, after an interim period of negative growth.

Most politicians, big business and its supporting economists call for growth as a solution to all our problems. Apparently, they believe in perpetual growth, which is a mathematical absurdity on a finite planet. There must be limits. Science is demonstrating that human population and consumption in the United States and the world are already far too large and are destroying the natural systems that support us. We must eventually stabilize our national as well as world population size, so that they would be sustainable indefinitely.

Since 1972, NPG has been making that case. We do not simply identify the problems, we propose solutions.

New NPG Forum Paper Explores the Most Influential Factors of Population Growth and the Implications of Covid-19 in the U.S.

Is Today’s Deregulated News Destroying our Democracy? As national media outlets continue to focus on the pandemic, the upcoming 2020 ...
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Will U.S. Population Fall in 2021?

In July, New York Times editor Bari Weiss published a scathing resignation letter to what she called a “once-great” newspaper, ...
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OPEN APPEAL TO THE 116TH CONGRESS

It’s happening all across America. Soaring population numbers—especially in the West—are adversely changing the dynamics of our quality of life ...
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New NPG Forum Paper Explores Deregulation and Its Effects on Population Issues

Is Today’s Deregulated News Destroying our Democracy? As national media outlets continue to focus on the pandemic, the upcoming 2020 ...
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Why Population Really Disappeared from the News and Became Politically Incorrect!

In July, New York Times editor Bari Weiss published a scathing resignation letter to what she called a “once-great” newspaper, ...
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NPG Environmental Ad Series

NPG’s series of ads run during the months of September and October 2020 in The Washington Times to draw attention ...
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New NPG Forum Paper Links Climate Change, Migration, and National Security to Population Growth and Sustainability

 What Global Warming & Past Migration Patterns Tell Us About National Security and Population Growth. As record breaking heatwaves continue ...
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Climate Change, Migration and National Security

As climate change accelerates, as much as one-third of world population could live in places that most humans consider too ...
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Nature Thrives with Fewer People

It’s happening all across America. Soaring population numbers—especially in the West—are adversely changing the dynamics of our quality of life ...
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NPG Awards Student Scholarships for 2020-2021 Academic Year

37 Students will Share $45,000 in Recognition of their Posters and Essays Related to Overpopulation. Negative Population Growth has announced ...
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