Beijing Takes the Lead on Population Policy

      Beijing announces new policy to limit population… According to a recent article in Focus News, “China’s national capital Beijing has announced plans to build a new administrative center adjacent to the city to address growing… woes.”  An announcement from the Communist Party of China explained a new guideline for the city’s future growth, which mandated an official population policy.  …

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    Deputy Director's Corner
    • July 23, 2015
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    Deputy Director’s Corner Are you on the frontlines of the fight for America’s future? Although World Population Day was observed on July 11th, it seems the global media is still talking about it.  I have enjoyed the opportunity to review a wide array of articles and blogs addressing the critical issue of population size and growth.  As this discussion tends …

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    NPG Announces Essay and Photo Scholarship Winners

    In keeping with its longstanding and highly popular Youth Outreach program, Negative Population Growth (NPG) continues to engage America’s students in the fight for their future. High school seniors and undergraduate students nationwide were invited to participate in NPG’s 2015 Essay and Photography Scholarship Contests…

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    A Geomoment of Affluence Between Two Austere Eras

    During most of human history austerity has been the norm. Only recently have some segments of world population enjoyed an affluent life. But these are very unusual times, far from the norm. It now appears human history can be broken into three distinct eras. First, the long march from the millennia of the hunter-gatherer economy to the time of the beginning and then widespread use of fossil fuels and other nonrenewable resources….

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    The President’s Column: NPG Statement on Population

    We believe that the optimum rate of population growth is negative.

    We believe that the optimum rate of population growth for the United States (and for the world) is negative, until such time as the scale of economic activity – and its environmental effects – is reduced to a level that would be sustainable indefinitely. We are convinced that if present rates of population …

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    New NPG Paper Sees Present Global Affluence as Brief and Nonrenewable

    After Pope Francis delivered a scathing encyclical on June 18, world debate surrounding climate change has become reignited. In response to the renewed public interest in this critical matter, Negative Population Growth (NPG) will release a new Forum paper on July 7 highlighting the links between population growth, natural resource consumption, and the likelihood of rapidly…

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    Deputy Director's Corner: Is America finally listening?

    Deputy Director’s Corner Is America finally listening? If you haven’t read it already, I encourage you to review Paul A. Murtaugh’s strong Op-Ed in The New York Times titled “Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb Argument Was Right.” Murtaugh, an associate statistics professor at Oregon State, strongly refuted The Times’ recent Retro Report called “The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion.“ Thankfully, Murtaugh …

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