Americans Have Spoken: No Further Population Growth
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Leon Bouvier
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September 1, 1997
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Special Report
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Americans Have Spoken: No Further Population Growth by Dr. Leon Bouvier Senior Fellow, Negative Population Growth Introduction   “The optimal balance, in the case of the United States, would seem to me to have been surpassed when the American population reached, at very maximum, two hundred million people, and perhaps a good deal less.” 1 These words written recently by one …
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Immigration and U.S. Population Growth: An Environmental Perspective (NPG Special Report)
Controversy over U.S. immigration policy is by no means new to the political landscape.
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A Survey Of American Attitudes About Population Size: Towards A Smaller U.S. Population (Executive Summary)
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NPG
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September 1, 1997
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Special Report
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Executive Summary A Survey Of American Attitudes About Population Size: Towards A Smaller U.S. Population Policy Makers Alert: New Poll Reveals Clear Attitudes Regarding U.S. Population Size and Growth To determine American public opinion with regard to U.S. population size and growth, NPG commissioned a Roper Starch survey. The survey, conducted in December 1995, was carried out with face-to-face interviews …
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A “U.S. POPULATION POLICY” – LET’S TALK
Proposals relating to a “U.S. population policy” are circulated from time to time and several have been circulated in 1997.
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Uncoupling Growth from Prosperity: The U.S. Versus Japan (NPG Footnote)
Who faces the brightest quality-of-life prospects for the year 2100: Japan with a population projected to decline by nearly 60 percent, or the United States, whose 1997 population of 267 million will nearly triple to 750 million (en route to a billion) if present levels of migration and fertility continue?
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THEY ASKED THE WRONG PEOPLE
The NRC has released the executive summary of a report on the economic, demographic, and fiscal effects of immigration.
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Stormy Seas and Head in the Sand (NPG Footnote)
The Wall Street Journal on April 1st ran a page one lead story about the promise of the new Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland (“Politics, Money and Nature Had Kept Vast Deposit on Ice,” by Staff Reporter Allana Sullivan).
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Reinventing Malthus for the 21st Century: A Bicentennial Event on Malthus’ Original Population Essay (NPG Special Report)
Celebrating the Bicentennial of Malthus’ Original Population Essay The 200th Anniversary of one of the most provocative essays in the history of Western thought is upon us, the original edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, first published in 1798. Â This important essay first identified the geometric role of natural population increase in outrunning …
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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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