NPG Releases New Forum Paper: More Nonsense on Inexhaustible Resources from The Wall Street Journal

Rejecting recent claims that the world’s resources are infinite, ecologist Leon Kolankiewicz targets population growth and resulting resource exhaustion.
In response to a disturbing essay recently published in The Wall Street Journal, Negative Population Growth (NPG) will release a new Forum paper on November 4th.  Highlighting …

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NPG Releases 15-Month Calendar of 2014 Photography Scholarship Contest Winners

NPG has released a full-size, 15-month calendar available now! A compilation of the winning submissions to our 2014 Photography Scholarship Contest, this full-color calendar is a beautiful display of the raw talent within America’s next generation of leaders. Each year, NPG offers our Scholarship Contests to high school seniors and undergraduate college students across the country.  In NPG’s 2014 Photography …

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TWO WHITE HATS (An NPG Footnote)

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version NPG REPRINT Adversaries, naturally, tend to regard each other as not just wrong, but morally wrong. Those of us in the population movement tend to see the selfish motives in those who would encourage more immigration — and more population growth — to compete with our own workers and overtax our resources …

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THE TWO CHILD FAMILY

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version NPG REPRINT NPG has published over 140 NPG FORUM and NPG FOOTNOTE papers over the past 27 years. Most of them are fading from memory because they were topical or simply because of the mass of writing that assaults us all. Some of those papers, however, addressed concerns that are still very …

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An Essay on a Sustainable Economy (An NPG Position Paper)

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version We originally published this NPG Position Paper in 1999. We have published it again because we believe that the problems it addresses are still very much with us, and that our recommended solutions are as pertinent now as they were then. Executive Summary Since NPG was founded over a quarter century ago …

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A No-Growth, Steady-State Economy Must Be Our Goal (An NPG Position Paper)

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version   We originally published this NPG Position Paper in 2002. We have published it again because we believe that the problems it addresses are still very much with us, and that our recommended solutions are as pertinent now as they were then. Executive Summary Economic growth in a finite world, which is …

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NPG Denounces President’s Determination to Dictate New Immigration Policy

NPG Denounces President’s Determination to Dictate New Immigration Policy Sees looming executive action in November as threat to stimulate U.S. population growth. Alexandria, VA (September 16, 2014) – Reacting to President Obama’s September 6th announcement to delay further executive action on immigration reform until after the November elections, Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Don Mann has restated the organization’s unconditional …

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The Choice to be Childfree: An Increasing Factor in U.S. Population Growth

A recent article in HuffPost Women discussed the increasing number of American women who are opting out of motherhood.  Titled Childfree by Choice:  How Women are Redefining Tomorrow’s Family, the piece took a pro-feminist position on the trend – as educational and employment opportunities for women improve, they are freer from the social expectation of maternity than any previous generation.  With …

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