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U.S. Overpopulation: Earth’s Biggest Problem

This ad appears in the May/June 2017 issues of Harpers Magazine & Mother Jones Magazine.  It also appears in the Washington Times on April 10, 2017. Please click the photo to view the add as it appeared in Harpers Magazine. U.S. OVERPOPULATION: EARTH’S BIGGEST PROBLEM 150,000,000: U.S. population in 1950 325,000,000: U.S. population today 400,000,000: projected U.S. population in 2050 …

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New NPG Forum Paper Maps the Removal of Population Issue from Environmental Movement

Your gift helps publish and distribute materials like this. Download a PDF of this release here. New NPG Forum Paper Maps the Removal of Population Issue from Environmental Movement Report follows the Earth Day and U.S. conservation movement’s abandonment of overpopulation and immigration as major environmental threats. Alexandria, VA – In commemoration of Earth Day 2017 and the associated March for …

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Earth Day and Population: A Missed Opportunity

  Your gift helps publish and distribute materials like this. Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version EARTH DAY AND POPULATION: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY An NPG Forum Paper by Leon Kolankiewicz  THE RISE AND FALL OF EARTH DAY: FROM SPONTANEOUS, SUBVERSIVE HAPPENING TO CORPORATE-SPONSORED FEEL-GOOD FEST I was a skinny sophomore at a suburban high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at …

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NPG Report Shows Every Immigrant Admission Means 4.45 People for U.S. Population

Expert analysis finds each immigrant sponsors an average of 3.45 more immigrants, contributing to population growth.
On February 7th, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. This bill would dramatically reduce annual legal immigration rates, specifically cutting back family preference categories – a practice known as “chain migration.” In response to this bill…

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Chain Migration: How Immigration Begets More Immigration

Just over 1.05 million new legal permanent immigrants were admitted to the United States in 2015 – a slight increase of 34,000 over the prior year, according to figures recently released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).1 The total number of new immigrants admitted in the last decade is just over 12.8 million. Legal immigration’s contribution to the U.S. population in the last decade is roughly the equivalent of adding a…

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New NPG Paper Shows Serious Impact of U.S. Population Growth on Climate Change

Your gift helps publish and distribute materials like this. Download a PDF of this release here. New NPG Paper Shows Serious Impact of U.S. Population Growth on Climate Change Expert analysis reveals that U.S. population growth is “the most important factor in CO2 emissions emanating from this country.” On January 20th, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President …

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THE IMPACT OF U.S. POPULATION GROWTH ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

  Your gift helps publish and distribute materials like this. Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version THE IMPACT OF U.S. POPULATION GROWTH ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE An NPG Forum Paper by Edwin S. Rubenstein  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, the nation paused to consider the impact of human activity on the global environment. The …

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Framework of the Future

Several years ago I gave a presentation called “Geo Destinies in the Coming Age of Geo Scarcity.” It was, of course, inspired by the seminal research and writing about depletion of the petroleum and minerals geologist Walter Youngquist. At the outset of my talk, I extolled his landmark 1997 book Geodestinies: The Inevitable Control of Earth Resources Over Nations and Individuals. …

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New NPG Paper Links Overpopulation to Dwindling Resources

Expert geologist Dr. Walter Youngquist calls for a “greatly reduced”population as a critical element of the solution to global resource shortages.
As the controversy surrounding the Dakota Access pipeline continues, debate over America’s fossil fuel dependence and threats to our essential resources have become reignited. In response to the renewed public interest in these critical matters, Negative Population Growth (NPG) will release a new Forum paper today highlighting the links between population growth, reliance on…

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Growth of Foreign-Born Population Surges as U.S. Economy Recovers

Census projections proclaim that, with Americans’ fertility falling and deaths soon to begin rising, immigration – not natural increase – will become the principal driver of U.S. population growth as early as 2023 (Rubenstein, 2016).
A September 2014 Census projection estimated that, despite some slowing growth attributed to the 2008 recession and aftermath, …

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