• Lindsey Grant
• June 1, 1999
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Peterson calls it “global aging”, but he is really talking about the developed world,* particularly western Europe and Japan.

• NPG
• April 18, 1999
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The Population-Environment Connection: Who Makes It? NPG Special Report by NPG April 1999 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version

• David Simcox
• March 20, 1999
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Illegal immigration, increasingly profitable for powerful interests,  has added as many as 12.5 million to the U.S. population  since 1960.  Ending the flow will demand a national consensus to fully fund enforcement, insulate it from pressures, and  mandate electronic verification of work eligibility. The public social costs of illegal settlement must be …

• Ed Lytwak
• March 1, 1999
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The second half of the Twentieth Century was a period of unprecedented and remarkable population growth in the United States.

• Leon Bouvier
• November 1, 1998
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Much has been written about the growing level of immigration into the United States over the past two decades.

• David Simcox
• October 1, 1998
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Population growth only postpones the day of reckoning. According to the Census Bureau’s 1992 most likely “medium”‘ projection, there is the troubling prospect of nearly 400 million Americans by mid-century.

• William R. Catton, Jr.
• August 1, 1998
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In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus tried to inform “people that a human population, like a population of any other species, had the potential to increase exponentially were it not limited by finite support from its resource base.

• Sharon McCloe Stein
• August 1, 1998
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In 1798, an English clergyman published an essay about human population growth that served to define the terms of debate on this issue for the next two hundred years.

• Mark Nowak
• June 1, 1998
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Although the United States is gener­ally thought of as a leader in social policy, when it comes to demographic policy the U.S. is well behind much of the rest of the world.

• Albert Bartlett
• April 1, 1998
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Around 1969, college and university students de­veloped a major interest in the environment and, stimu­lated by this, I began to realize that neither I nor the students had a good understanding of the implications of steady growth, and in particular, of the enormous numbers that could be produced by steady growth in modest periods of time.