HUDDLED EXCESSES (NPG Footnote)
- Michael Lind
- October 1, 1996
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Sooner or later America must face reality. It is going to be painful. … What America is fighting is a piece of poetry. … The poetry is thrilling.
Sooner or later America must face reality. It is going to be painful. … What America is fighting is a piece of poetry. … The poetry is thrilling.
Two years ago the world badly needed William Hollingsworth’s tough-minded but humane prescription for urgent reduction of human fertility.

Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth’s ability to support them.
China is not just an example of an industrializing nation.
The PCSD has completed its report on sustainability in America, to almost total press and public silence, and so quietly that it took multiple ‘phone calls to the White House to find anybody who knew what it was.
It often seems as though the dispute about immigration’s impact on America involves endless debate over statistics — whose are right and whose are wrong.
In recent months, the American public has awakened to the fact that our country is becoming more overcrowded than ever.
by Michelle Mittelstadt Associated Press February 26, 1996 Washington (AP) – Nearly eight of every 10 Americans believe immigration rates should be dramatically scaled back and fully one-fifth want a halt to all immigration, legal or not, a new poll suggests. The roper poll, commissioned by a small non-profit group that advocates a substantially decreased U.S. population, comes as Congress …
Food, Energy, and Society by David and Marcia Pimentel, Editors University Press of Colorado, 1996, Revised Edition. Hardback. Food, Energy, and Society provides a detailed evaluation of the link between two of the greatest problems we face today – uncontrolled population growth and the destruction of our various life-supporting systems – food, land, water, and energy. Editors David and Marcia …
“Unfortunately, with an endless supply of competing crises to capture both rich and poor nations’ attention and resources, governments are likely to lose focus . The world community will not do nearly enough to prevent massive overpopulation unless two things