Perpetual Population Growth is the Aim of Washington’s Immigration Policy, Says NPG Head Don Mann

Alexandria, VA (March 13, 2014) – NPG President Don Mann, in his March 2014 President’s Column, states that the current drive in Congress and the White House to double immigration grows out of the widely held but misguided conviction that immigration-fed population growth ensures economic growth. Mann rejects the warning of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors that the slowing …

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New NPG Paper Foresees Rising Scarcity and Costs of Non-Renewable Natural Resources

Alexandria, VA (March 10, 2014) – For more than two centuries, the United States and the rest of the industrialized world have taken for granted the abundance and affordability of the high quality non-renewable natural resources (NNRs) – minerals, metals, and fossil fuels – vital to maintaining and expanding their high-consumption industrial societies. These were “the good old days” that …

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NPG Staff Interviewed for Washington Times Article on Overpopulation & Immigration

A recent Washington Times – Communities article by Joseph Cotto accurately addresses the real issue when it comes to America’s immigration problem.  Titled “Overpopulation:  Illegal immigration is about more than ethnic identity,” Cotto’s article focuses on the critical (yet widely ignored) element of America’s population growth as it relates to immigration.  After interviewing NPG’s Executive Vice President Craig Lewis and …

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NPG Responds to BBC

Following BBC’s recent publication of a Hans Rosling article and television presentation on population, NPG has drafted an official response to BBC.  Rosling presents misleading data points and ignores the root of our world’s population growth problems, offering no solution whatsoever on how to solve the problem of overpopulation.  NPG encourages our members and supporters to contact BBC with their …

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NPG President: Population Pressures Demand That U.S. Renounce Cherished Goal of Economic Growth

Alexandria, VA – There is a limit to how fast and how far the American economy can grow – and we’re approaching it soon. That’s the message Negative Population Growth’s president, Donald Mann, has posted on the organization’s website, www.NPG.org. Mann, who has headed up NPG since its founding in 1972, is advocating that the U.S. start moving toward a …

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NPG Finds New California Laws Are Expanding the Welcome Mat for Illegal Immigration

Alexandria, VA – An analysis by Negative Population Growth (NPG) of California’s new immigration laws finds that they will increase population growth, both nationally and in California.  Enacted in October, the laws further shield illegal aliens from federal enforcement and grant them added incentives to remain – and for others to come. NPG President Don Mann noted that the analysis …

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NPG Recommends the New Autobiography of Lester Brown.

NPG is pleased to recommend Breaking New Ground:  A Personal History, the autobiography of global environmental activist Lester Brown.  Praised by the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers,” he is the winner of multiple honorary awards and has published several works on the global environmental movement.  Brown’s efforts – including his founding of both the Worldwatch …

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