Gregory Ross – $1,000 Winner of the 2014 NPG Essay Scholarship Contest
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July 10, 2014
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ws_table id=”37″ Let’s Keep It “America the Beautiful” By Gregory Ross, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Despite the 100-degree Arizona heat, the Colorado River was freezing cold. My toes, dipped in its muddy waters, told me the Grand Canyon is not in its natural state. I was studying the Canyon’s ecosystem on a nine-day river-rafting trip. Fifty years ago, to accommodate the …
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Unaccompanied Alien Children: Humanitarian Crisis or Foreseeable Result?
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June 30, 2014
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The NPG Journal: Vol. 7, No. 5
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June 30, 2014
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A Monthly Commentary on Population and Immigration Issues.
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Sobering Wisdom from the Elders (An NPG Booknote)
NPG adherents, along with all Americans hoping for population sanity, will find stirring essays and insights of longtime advocates of population reduction in the just-released book Facing the Population Challenge: Wisdom from the Elders. Edited by Marilyn Hempel, the book is a project of Blue Planet United – a nonprofit …
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NPG is Pleased to Announce the Winners of Our 2014 Photo Scholarship Contest.
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June 17, 2014
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NPG is pleased to offer challenging contests as part of our mission to enlist a new generation of activists, who will be focused on calling attention to the dangers of population growth. We send our thanks to all of our members and friends who have so generously contributed – as well as our appreciation for the tens of thousands of …
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NPG Calls for White House Commitment to Study U.S. Population Growth
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June 13, 2014
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Cites need for Presidential Commission on Population as critical to administration’s priority to reverse climate change. Following the release of the White House’s National Climate Assessment last month, Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Don Mann has called on the Obama administration to give top priority to studying the consequences of U.S. population growth. In a letter to Dr. John P. Holdren, Director of …
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Concerned About The Environmental Future of the Country?
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June 1, 2014
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This Ad appeared in USA TODAY Saluting National Parks edition, available until June 2014.
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While Increasing Fuel Efficiency is a Positive Step, America is Still Missing the Real Solution
Just a few days after his State of the Union address, President Obama followed through on his promise to work against climate change. According to USA Today, he “ordered the Environmental Protection Agency EPA and the Transportation Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA to develop and issue new fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 31, 2016.” Environmentalists hailed …
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The NPG Journal: Vol. 7, No. 4
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May 16, 2014
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A Monthly Commentary on Population and Immigration Issues.
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The Awesome Power of Exponential Growth
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 …
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