NPG Launches Area-Wide Educational Project to Help Save the Chesapeake Bay
-
NPG
-
January 23, 2009
-
Press Releases
-
0 Comments
Alexandria, VA (1/23/09): Negative Population Growth, the nation’s premier population-focused organization, has launched a new “Chesapeake Bay Project” dedicated to focusing students’ attention on the Chesapeake Bay’s deteriorating environment. The new program is designed to serve as both an educational project and a “call to action” for students to get involved in pressuring federal, state and local leaders to produce …
Continue Reading
2045 A Story of Our Future
-
NPG
-
January 1, 2009
-
Recommended Reading
-
0 Comments
Global warming, environmental degradation, the rapid pace of technological innovation, and the economic stresses of globalization give rise to much speculation about the future. How will these dynamic factors affect society in the coming
Continue Reading
Population: An Unacknowledged Presence At World Food Crisis Talks
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Continuing world population growth was a huge but unacknowledged elephant in the conference hall at the June 2008 UN-Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Summit in Rome on World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy. Remarkably, only a handful of the more than 200 heads of government, foreign ministers, ambassadors and ministers of agriculture, development and trade …
Continue Reading
THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS
The name of the abyss is energy.
Continue Reading
Peak Coal
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The Energy Watch Group (EWG) in Germany has produced the most detailed and most disquieting study I have yet seen of the future of world coal production. They start, as do most writers on the future of coal, from the national statistical data compiled by the World Energy Council (WEC), but they …
Continue Reading
THOUGHTS ON IMMIGRATION INTO THE UNITED STATES
Immigration is currently very much a hot-button item at the local level, the state level, and nationally. Public discussions generally focus on three separate aspects of immigration;
1) law and order, 2) economic, 3) humanitarian.
Continue Reading
Peak Oil. Are We There Yet?
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version In the 1950s, Shell Oil geologist M. King Hubbert predicted that oil production in the United States would peak about 1970 and thereafter inescapably drift downward. He was generally derided, but production did indeed peak in 1970. After that, several other petroleum geologists applied “Hubbert’s curve” to world recoverable oil resources, and …
Continue Reading
Population and the American Predicament: The Case Against Complacency
That the United States should and probably can achieve a condition of zero population growth at some time in the next hundred years is no longer a matter of much dispute. Most students of contemporary
Continue Reading
Valedictory: The Age of Overshoot
Civilizations have overused their resources before, and collapsed or moved on, but never on a scale remotely resembling the present threat, and now the Earth is full.
Continue Reading
A FALSE CHOICE: CITIZENSHIP OR MASS DEPORTATION – A REALISTIC VIEW OF TODAY’S IMMIGRATION DEBATE
This paper was written in the Summer of 2006 after Congressional debate on comprehensive immigration reform and following passage of legislation in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Continue Reading
