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Elephants in the Volkswagen: Facing the Tough Questions About Our Overcrowded Country
In the last century, the United States has grown from 75 million people to 250 million. Have we gone too far?
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The Most Overpopulated Nation
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The Most Overpopulation NationAn NPG Forum Paperby Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. EhrlickJanuary 1991 This paper was originally published by NPG in January 1991.We are reprinting it 5 years later, in November 1996, with the Ehrlichs’ permission. Those of us who deal with population issues all the time are frequently confronted …
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The Plight of the Chesapeake
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The Plight of the Chesapeake An NPG Forum Paper The Optimum Population Series By Stephen Tennenbaum & Robert Costanza December 1990 This is the thirteenth in a series of NPG Forum papers exploring the idea of optimum population ö what would be a desirable population size for the United States? Without any …
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Balancing Humans in the Biosphere: Escaping the Overpopulation Trap
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Life Expectancy Drives U.S. and World Population Growth An NPG Forum Paper The Optimum Population Series by Robert Costanza July 1990 This is the eighth in a series of NPG Forum papers exploring the idea of optimum population what would be a desirable population size for the United States? Without any consensus …
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