The Southwest: Ground-Zero for Global Warming

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Experts warn that the American Southwest will be the part of the nation hit first, worst and hardest by global warming. But the desert Southwest— what author Wallace Stegner called “the dry core of the West”—could face a civilization-breaking water crisis even without global warming. There is insufficient water for the current …

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Negative Population Growth Sees Supreme Court Ruling on Arizona as a Call to Congress to Increase the Penalties for Illegal Immigration

Alexandria, VA (June 27, 2012) – Negative Population Growth President Don Mann voiced disappointment over the Supreme Court’s decision Monday to overturn three of the four contested provisions of Arizona’s controversial 2010 immigration enforcement law, SB 1070. “This decision, coming in the wake of President Obama’s directive to Homeland Security to defer deportation (perhaps permanently) of some 1.4 million illegal …

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NPG Condemns Obama Immigration Order

Asserts that Rigorous Deportation Program is Essential Element in an Effective Immigration Policy Alexandria, VA (June 19, 2012) – Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Donald Mann forcefully denounced the Obama Administration’s new policy that will immediately stop deportations and start granting work permits for hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants now in the U.S. Mann criticized President Obama’s actions …

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2012 Student Poster Contest Winners

NPG is happy to announce the winners of our 2012 Student Poster Contest. Of the hundreds of posters submitted from very talented and perceptive students from across the country, our team of judges, consisting of NPG staff and advisors, determined these posters to be the very best of the entries. We greatly appreciate everyone’s participation in this effort, from the …

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Happy Days are Here Again?

There has been a welter of celebratory stories in the popular press claiming that, because of the advent of fracking, our energy problems are over, that we are on the way to ending our dependence on foreign energy sources, and that – as a consequence – any worries about the limits to growth and the transition from fossil fuels are no longer relevant. I will present a less ecstatic analysis.1

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NPG Members Support State Legislators in Arizona vs. United States

Open Letter to U.S. Supreme Court Backs State Action on Immigration Laws Alexandria, VA (April 24, 2012) – Negative Population Growth members from Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah have publicly gone on record urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the actions of their legislatures regarding illegal immigration enforcement. With the nation’s highest court scheduled to hear …

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