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• September 20, 1999
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Better Not Bigger by Eben Fodor New Society Publishers, 1999 Reviewed by former NPG Executive Director Sharon McCloe Stein  American attitudes toward growth reflect a great deal of ambivalence.  Many see economic and population growth as good business, more consumers, more workers, more prosperity ÷ a rising tide that lifts all boats.  For …

• Donald Mann
• September 1, 1999
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A short definition of sustainability is the management of environmental and resource systems so that their ability to support future generations is not diminished.

• NPG
• August 1, 1999
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During the 1960s and 1970s, an ideological shift occurred in America with respect to the value of further growth.

• Lindsey Grant
• June 1, 1999
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Peterson calls it “global aging”, but he is really talking about the developed world,* particularly western Europe and Japan.

• NPG
• April 18, 1999
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The Population-Environment Connection: Who Makes It? NPG Special Report by NPG April 1999 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version

• David Simcox
• March 20, 1999
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Illegal immigration, increasingly profitable for powerful interests,  has added as many as 12.5 million to the U.S. population  since 1960.  Ending the flow will demand a national consensus to fully fund enforcement, insulate it from pressures, and  mandate electronic verification of work eligibility. The public social costs of illegal settlement must be …

• Ed Lytwak
• March 1, 1999
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The second half of the Twentieth Century was a period of unprecedented and remarkable population growth in the United States.

• Leon Bouvier
• November 1, 1998
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Much has been written about the growing level of immigration into the United States over the past two decades.

• David Simcox
• October 1, 1998
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Population growth only postpones the day of reckoning. According to the Census Bureau’s 1992 most likely “medium”‘ projection, there is the troubling prospect of nearly 400 million Americans by mid-century.