The final 2014 birth rate report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed new data on U.S. fertility trends. According to the report, there were 3,988,076 births registered in the U.S. in 2014 – an increase of 1% from the year before. The report also highlighted: “The general fertility rate rose slightly to 62.9 per 1,000 women aged 15-44, …
Continue ReadingAfter Pope Francis delivered a scathing encyclical on June 18, world debate surrounding climate change has become reignited. In response to the renewed public interest in this critical matter, Negative Population Growth (NPG) will release a new Forum paper on July 7 highlighting the links between population growth, natural resource consumption, and the likelihood of rapidly…
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Continue ReadingDespite global media attention on new population models, there is still no acknowledgment of the clear solution:Â widespread access to contraception, and smaller family sizes.
Alexandria, VA (November 20, 2014) – In response to an October 27th article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), today Negative Population Growth (NPG) released a new President’s Column….
Despite 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,”…
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version NPG REPRINT NPG has published over 140 NPG FORUM and NPG FOOTNOTE papers over the past 27 years. Most of them are fading from memory because they were topical or simply because of the mass of writing that assaults us all. Some of those papers, however, addressed concerns that are still very …
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Continue ReadingNPG Releases New Forum Paper: Our Plundered Planet and a Future of Less Rejecting the prevailing faith in growth, expert Walter Youngquist comments on resource and population trends – and the precarious balance between them. View this release on PRWeb. Alexandria, VA (July 23, 2014) – As Americans prepare for another summer of road trips – and feel the inevitable pain at the …
Continue ReadingClick 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 …
Continue ReadingNPG adherents, along with all Americans hoping for population sanity, will find stirring essays and insights of longtime advocates of population reduction in the just-released book Facing the Population Challenge: Wisdom from the Elders. Edited by Marilyn Hempel, the book is a project of Blue Planet United – a nonprofit …
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