Exponential growth is the steady growth of anything by a fixed percentage over a period of time.  Compound interest on a savings account is a good example of exponential growth.  The late Professor Albert A. Bartlett said “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”  We fully agree. I often wonder if the …
The Spring 2014 issue of Social Contract Journal is out! This issue’s theme is: What Should America’s Immigration Policy Be? NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada contributed the piece “U.S. Immigration Policy – An Ever-Growing Challenge,” which highlights the real facts about U.S. immigration. NPG Special Advisor David Simcox collaborated with Tracy to submit a revised version of his classic NPG …
Alexandria, VA (May 11, 2014) – Observing that mass immigration has by default become the nation’s de facto population policy, Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Don Mann has released an updated position paper. The paper, Toward Negative Population Growth, restates NPG’s call for an eighty percent reduction of annual legal immigration into the U.S. NPG’s proposal would reduce the current …
As population growth continues, our consumption of natural resources – including fossil fuels – has reached critical mass. In our effort to find a quick-fix through technology, we grasp at “solutions” like fracking – which irreversibly destroy our environment and provide only a very short window of extra time. …
Mass immigration, whether through established or extra-legal channels, has by default become the nation’s de facto population policy. In 2005, new immigrants (legal and illegal) plus births to immigrants accounted for about 2.3 million people – more than 60 percent of America’s average annual population growth at the time.1 In 2008, studies projected that immigration (legal, illegal, and the…
This online banner ad appeared on CSMonitor.com April 2014.
A Monthly Commentary on Population and Immigration Issues.
This Ad appearing in USA TODAY Living Green hitting stands April 8, 2014.
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 …
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 …