A Life Devoted to Changing Attitudes on Population Growth Population writer Lindsey Grant (1926 – 2024) began his association with NPG in 1987, when he initiated the NPG Forum series. Over the following 3 decades, he continued to write about population issues, ultimately contributing more than 60 works to NPG. In addition to authoring many papers himself, Lindsey helped arrange …
Continue ReadingPopulation writer Lindsey Grant has been associated with NPG since 1987, when he initiated the NPG Forum series. Since then, he has written more than 60 Forum pieces for NPG. He also edited the Optimum Population series and some other early Forum pieces for NPG. He has also written or edited eight books during that period, six of which were …
Continue ReadingNegative Population Growth (NPG) is pleased to issue its seventh Forum Paper for 2018, with the publication and distribution of Feminism, Migration, And Population Policy: A Letter To My Friends, authored by Lindsey Grant.
NPG President Mann applauded the publication of this important paper by Grant by stating: “For many years Lindsey…
Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth’s ability to support them.
Continue ReadingIn this tough-minded, lucid book, Leon Bouvier and Lindsey Grant examine the inevitable and escalating environmental degradation that will result if population growth pushes the limits of our already strained…
Continue ReadingAs we already know – population concerns loom over many countries. A quick bird’s eye view (i.e., a google search) of countries battling unsustainable population growth would illuminate even the most unenlightened among us. India, rich with history and beauty, is second only to China as the most populous country. In fact, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation by as early as 2027.
Continue ReadingThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved birth-control pill, Enovid-10, 61 years ago, this month.
Continue ReadingSee also Lindsey Grant Books and Notable Papers and Articles (from sources other than NPG, but of significant importance to NPG’s mission and goals).
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The human population on Earth has quadrupled in the past century. It is degrading the capability of Earth’s natural systems to support us. Mathematically, that astonishing growth must stop. How it will stop, and at what level and condition, is thoroughly obscure, but there are changes afoot….
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Walter L. Youngquist, PhD 1921-2018 With the passing of Dr. Walter Youngquist in February, NPG and the many Americans alarmed by unending population growth and rapid depletion of earth’s resources have lost a distinguished and deeply experienced author, thinker, advocate and friend. A petroleum geologist with a doctorate in geology, Dr. Youngquist taught, wrote and spoke publicly over several decades …
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