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Our Plundered Planet and a Future of Less

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Walter Younquist is a veteran observer and commentator on world and U.S. resource and population trends, and the precarious balance between them. A frequent contributor to NPG publications, Youngquist draws on lengthy professional experience as a petroleum geologist which has taken him to over 70 countries. His title here, A Future of …

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Ian T. Grey – $1,000 Winner of the Richard C. Smith NPG Essay Scholarship

ws_table id=”37″ By Ian T. Grey, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ The natural resources necessary for sustaining human life are running out in the United States, but most Americans refuse to acknowledge either the problem or the real and obvious reason for it. It is not due to shortages of fresh water, food, energy, fresh air or physical space; Nature provides abundantly, …

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While Increasing Fuel Efficiency is a Positive Step, America is Still Missing the Real Solution

Just a few days after his State of the Union address, President Obama followed through on his promise to work against climate change.  According to USA Today, he “ordered the Environmental Protection Agency EPA and the Transportation Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA to develop and issue new fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 31, 2016.”  Environmentalists hailed …

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