Perpetual Population Growth is the Aim of Washington’s Immigration Policy, Says NPG Head Don Mann

    Alexandria, VA (March 13, 2014) – NPG President Don Mann, in his March 2014 President’s Column, states that the current drive in Congress and the White House to double immigration grows out of the widely held but misguided conviction that immigration-fed population growth ensures economic growth. Mann rejects the warning of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors that the slowing …

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    New NPG Paper Foresees Rising Scarcity and Costs of Non-Renewable Natural Resources

    Alexandria, VA (March 10, 2014) – For more than two centuries, the United States and the rest of the industrialized world have taken for granted the abundance and affordability of the high quality non-renewable natural resources (NNRs) – minerals, metals, and fossil fuels – vital to maintaining and expanding their high-consumption industrial societies. These were “the good old days” that …

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    Ecological Economist Brian Czech’s Supply Shock: A Persuasive Road Map to a Steady-State Economy (NPG Book Review)

    Looking back on 2013, my pick for the most useful and incisive book on our lethal addiction to economic growth and the alternative of a steady-state economy is Brian Czech’s Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Cross Roads and the Steady-State solution (New Society Publishers, 2013, 389 pages). If you are among the millions of Americans concerned about the destructive …

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    NPG Staff Interviewed for Washington Times Article on Overpopulation & Immigration

    A recent Washington Times – Communities article by Joseph Cotto accurately addresses the real issue when it comes to America’s immigration problem.  Titled “Overpopulation:  Illegal immigration is about more than ethnic identity,” Cotto’s article focuses on the critical (yet widely ignored) element of America’s population growth as it relates to immigration.  After interviewing NPG’s Executive Vice President Craig Lewis and …

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    NPG Responds to BBC

    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 …

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    Fracking on the Rise – But Not Without a Fight

    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 …

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