Immigration and U.S. Population Growth: An Environmental Perspective
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Mark Nowak
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January 16, 1997
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Special Report
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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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A Bicentennial Malthusian Essay: Conservation, Population and the Indifference to Limits
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NPG
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January 1, 1997
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Recommended Reading
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“In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus wrote the controversial Essay on the Principle of Population in which he stated: “… the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth
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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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HUDDLED EXCESSES (NPG Footnote)
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.
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Ending the Explosion: Population Policies and Ethics for a Humane Future (NPG Booknote)
Two years ago the world badly needed William Hollingsworth’s tough-minded but humane prescription for urgent reduction of human fertility.
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Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet
Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth’s ability to support them.
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CHINA AS AN “EMERGING” NATION
China is not just an example of an industrializing nation.
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Population and The PCSD (NPG Booknote)
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.
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A TALE OF TEN CITIES
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.
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IT’S TIME TO STOP AT TWO
In recent months, the American public has awakened to the fact that our country is becoming more overcrowded than ever.
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