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  • November 1, 2016
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Recently, one of our most loyal NPG supporters sent me a link to this article, which appeared in the Star Tribune:  “Minnesota’s Threatened Rivers.”  The story, written by Josephine Marcotty, opens with the statement:  “The greatest river in North America begins in Minnesota.  But our pristine stretch of the Mississippi faces mounting environmental threats.”  In her powerful article, Marcotty outlines …

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Deputy Director's Corner

Recently, one of the key legislative staffers for Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL, 5th) sent me a YouTube link.  It was video of Congressman Brooks giving a speech on the U.S. House of Representatives floor – a speech titled “Brooks Urges Reevaluation of Mass Immigration Policies.”  In just 4 minutes 56 seconds, Brooks covers many of the points on immigration that NPG …

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NPG Forum Paper Links Population Growth to Significant Biodiversity Loss

Following a September 16th report in the journal Science outlining the world’s “sixth extinction” event – a serious ecological threat which scientists are increasingly convinced is imminent, Negative Population Growth (NPG) will release a new Forum paper today drawing the link between population growth and diminishing global biodiversity. Unfortunately for pro-growth optimists, the paper begins with a warning: “One species, Homo sapiens, is expanding at the expense of most other creatures – …

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Crushing Biodiversity with the Weight of the Human Race

BIODIVERSITY – DISPATCH FROM THE FRONTLINES
Some years ago, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras I was invited to help lead a fact-finding mission into the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve. The Río Plátano (Plantain River) flows through the green, humid heart of an isolated region called La Mosquitia – the largest remaining rainforest wilderness of this ecologically-stressed Central American nation…

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Deputy Director’s Corner

Deputy Director’s Corner NPG Deputy Director Tracy Henke can be reached by email at thenke@npg.org. Following last year’s tragic slaying of 32-year old Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco – and the terrible consequences of that city’s blatant refusal to enforce federal immigration laws, the issue of sanctuary legislation began receiving a new burst of national attention. This is because Steinle’s …

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