ws_table id=”40″ By Calvin Wilder, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Price the Future Will Pay The first (and only) time I visited Alaska, I was only six years old. Even so, the experience of seeing that truly wild, untamed land has always stuck with me. I was there for just a week, but in that time I saw a …
Continue Readingws_table id=”40″ By James Wang, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Sprawling forests of metropolitan areas covered in smog. Vast fields of monoculture. Herds of backed up cars. Mountains of trash and litter. These everyday sights in the United States are replacing nature’s beauty and causing a myriad of problems such as desertification, deforestation, shortage of drinking water, depletion of energy …
Continue Readingws_table id=”40″ By Megan Beach, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL To ensure any measure of quality in the lives of its citizens, the United States must actively pursue population policies. After all, a mere request, no matter how dire the situation, cannot and will not promote change. This was proven true just this past year. The California governor declared a drought …
Continue Readingws_table id=”40″ By Raegan Melfe, California Baptist University, Riverside, CA Should the United States’ government pursue population policies to protect our quality of life for future generations? I live in California, which has the largest population in the United States at 38.8 million people, and no legitimate Population Growth Policy. California has experienced significant population growth over the past 6 …
Continue ReadingNPG is pleased to offer challenging contests as part of our mission to enlist a new generation of activists, who will be focused on calling attention to the dangers of population growth. We send our thanks to all of our members and friends who have so generously contributed – as well as our appreciation for the tens of thousands of …
Continue ReadingAre 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 …
NPG Republishes Cornerstone U.S. Population Policy Document NPG’s outline for a national population policy for U.S. to avert projected 416 million people by 2060. This press release was picked up by 167 news outlets across the country, including all major television networks. Together, NPG’s message was distributed to a prospective audience of nearly 144 million Americans. Click here for a …
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