Sustainability, Part II: A Proposal to Foundations

    Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version.  The nation grows, but public and political interest in the consequences is close to negligible.  That inattention makes the issue more, not less, important.  What is here proposed is the use of a systematic foresight process — a “Sustainability Project” — to bring population growth back into the national debate by publicizing …

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    Sustainability, Part I: On the Edge of an Oxymoron

    Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version.  The term “sustainable development” has become fashionable, but it is regularly used in the sense of “sustainable growth,” a self-contradictory concept beloved by those who want to continue at the same old stand growth as a solution to all problems and yet couch it in terms that will not offend environmentalists.  The …

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    Immigration and U.S. Population Growth: An Environmental Perspective

    Controversy over U.S. immigration policy is by no means new to the political landscape.  Since 1819, when Congress passed the first significant law regulating immigration into the United States, successive debates over immigration have stirred emotions and polarized perceptions.  It is not surprising, then, to find that environmentalists, confronted by the issue with increasing frequency, are by no means in …

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    The Case Against Immigration (NPG Book Review)

    Roy Beck  The Case Against Immigration  New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1996.  Journalist, immigration scholar and active protestant layman, Roy Beck is pro-immigrant but anti-immigration- at least immigration at its present level of one million-plus yearly. His book is a powerful case against today’s mass immigration that is compassionate, racially-sensitive but not racist, and profoundly moral.  Steering clear of …

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