Are you alarmed about rapid U.S. and world population growth and its accumulating damage to the planet’s life supports?
You will be even more so after viewing the dramatic, often depressing photo essays in the recently released work Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot …
New NPG Forum Paper: Population Pressures on Soils Threaten Food Security
Analysis of human population growth and agricultural trends shows another vital natural resource is disappearing: fertile soil for food production.
After a January 2015 article in the journal Geology revealed that human activity is eroding soil “100 times faster” than …
AÂ Weekly Commentary on Population and Immigration Issues.
Continue ReadingDespite global media attention on the problem, there is still no acknowledgment of the clear solution:Â widespread access to contraception, and smaller family sizes.
On October 27th, two biologists at Australia’s University of Adelaide shocked the global media with their article “Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems,”…
A Monthly Commentary on Population and Immigration Issues.
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version More Nonsense on Inexhaustible Resources from The Wall Street Journal Over the years – even over the decades, long before it was absorbed into the Murdoch Empire – the inimitable Wall Street Journal has been a reliable source of baloney on the subject of prospects for infinite growth on a finite planet. …
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Continue ReadingNew NPG President’s Column Draws Link Between Toledo Water Ban and U.S. Population Growth Connects growing population to increasing climate change and agricultural runoff, serious threats to our nation’s water supply. This press release was picked up by 288 news outlets across the country, including: The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Sacramento Bee, The Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and local affiliates from coast to …
Continue ReadingResidents of Toledo, OH breathed a sigh of relief in early August, as the Mayor lifted a tap water ban affecting up to 400,000 people. After state and federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials found high levels of the toxin “microcystin” in the water supply of certain neighborhoods, officials decided to ban tap water use for the entire city – …
Continue Readingws_table id=”37″ By Pierce Brooks, Wesley College, Dover, DE The Case for Population Control It became apparent to me when I was younger that overpopulation was a serious problem. I am a documentary junky and have seen documentaries and read about the effects of overpopulation on our environment. There is no agreement on how bad the problems are or how best to …
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