• Lindsey Grant
• February 15, 2012
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Money talks, very loud, in American politics.  I have pointed out before that American immigration policy is largely set by entrepreneurs seeking cheap labor, not because most people want it.1  In fairness, however, let me say that there is a substantial body of immigration advocates who believe, quite sincerely, that unchecked immigration …

• Lindsey Grant
• February 1, 2012
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If over the past three decades the United States had deliberately set out to create unemployment, it could hardly have done a more thorough job. The sources of the problem lie in our immigration policy, foreign trade policy, the failure to deal with rising productivity, and our reliance on public and private debt. I will suggest specific solutions. They require a fundamental change in our national thinking to recognize that go-go economic growth is no longer possible at this stage in history.

Our present unemployment problem is not transitory, and it is not confined to the United States. It is much more intense in many countries, particularly the poorest ones, and that in turn will lead to more intense migratory pressures. The more prosperous countries – not just the United States – will need the discipline to match their populations and their policies to their job opportunities, their resources and their food supply. They will need to develop and enforce effective controls over migration, trade and debt to survive amidst unprecedented challenges.

• Lindsey Grant
• December 15, 2011
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version box size=”large”Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking” in the popular literature; “fracing” in some technical journals) is a technique for expanding gas and oil production. It is dramatically raising expectations for future gas and oil production, and technological optimists are hailing it as the answer to fears of a decline in world fossil energy production. …

• Lindsey Grant
• June 20, 2011
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The United Nations Population Division on May 3rd released its 2010 world population projections. The study is the best available collection of current world demographic data, but the projections, as usual, are something of a parlor game. They involve questionable and highly optimistic assumptions about fertility and mortality. They ignore other studies that identify external forces that will shape population growth. They assume political …

• David Simcox
• April 3, 2011
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Australia has created a Ministry of Sustainable Population and is nearing the end of a yearlong high-level review of its population strategy. These initiatives since 2009 came in the midst of public concerns about increasing urban congestion and about 2009 demographic projections showing population growing by more than 60 percent by 2050 – to 35 million. The preliminary findings from the …

• Lindsey Grant
• November 3, 2010
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Scientists have long recognized the population problem, and most of the world’s national scientific societies have warned against continued growth.

• Lindsey Grant
• October 1, 2010
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The ancient Greeks used the word hubris to describe vaulting pride that challenged even the gods.