Following BBC’s recent publication of a Hans Rosling article and television presentation on population, NPG has drafted an official response to BBC. Rosling presents misleading data points and ignores the root of our world’s population growth problems, offering no solution whatsoever on how to solve the problem of overpopulation. NPG encourages our members and supporters to contact BBC with their …
The Washington Post recently reported that the Obama administration has approved a new proposal for natural gas exports, this time off the coast of Maryland. The recent advent of “fracking” as a drilling method has resulted in a dramatic increase in requests to explore, drill, and push for domestic production. As Lindsey Grant explained in Is Fracking an Answer? To What?: “Hydraulic …
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version An NPG Forum Paper by Lindsey Grant “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” – Economist Kenneth Boulding, 1977 If there were one message I could imprint on the American mind, it would be this: Perpetual physical growth is impossible on a …
Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition took power in Australia in September 2013, after winning a convincing election victory over the ruling Labor Party. Labor’s acquiescence in the country’s rapid population growth (which averaged 1.8 percent annually in the period from 2006 to 2011, peaking at 2.2 percent in 2008) …
Alexandria, VA – There is a limit to how fast and how far the American economy can grow – and we’re approaching it soon. That’s the message Negative Population Growth’s president, Donald Mann, has posted on the organization’s website, www.NPG.org. Mann, who has headed up NPG since its founding in 1972, is advocating that the U.S. start moving toward a …
A Monthly Commentary on Population and Immigration Issues.
Alexandria, VA – An analysis by Negative Population Growth (NPG) of California’s new immigration laws finds that they will increase population growth, both nationally and in California. Enacted in October, the laws further shield illegal aliens from federal enforcement and grant them added incentives to remain – and for others to come. NPG President Don Mann noted that the analysis …
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The federal government in Washington may be loathe to make population policy, but  California’s governor and legislature have shown by their latest enactments on immigration that they have no problem at all with that. Making Population Policy in the Largest State The lawmakers’ priority concern appears to be that the state …
NPG is pleased to recommend Breaking New Ground: A Personal History, the autobiography of global environmental activist Lester Brown. Praised by the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers,” he is the winner of multiple honorary awards and has published several works on the global environmental movement. Brown’s efforts – including his founding of both the Worldwatch …
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It is apparently extremely difficult for the general public, as well as for our decision makers and opinion leaders, to grasp (or wrap their heads around as the saying goes these days) the idea that economic …