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NPG Calls for White House Commitment to Study U.S. Population Growth

Cites need for Presidential Commission on Population as critical to administration’s priority to reverse climate change. Following the release of the White House’s National Climate Assessment last month, Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Don Mann has called on the Obama administration to give top priority to studying the consequences of U.S. population growth. In a letter to Dr. John P. Holdren, Director of …

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While Increasing Fuel Efficiency is a Positive Step, America is Still Missing the Real Solution

Just a few days after his State of the Union address, President Obama followed through on his promise to work against climate change.  According to USA Today, he “ordered the Environmental Protection Agency EPA and the Transportation Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA to develop and issue new fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 31, 2016.”  Environmentalists hailed …

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The Awesome Power of Exponential Growth

Exponential growth is the steady growth of anything by a fixed percentage over a period of time.  Compound interest on a savings account is a good example of exponential growth.  The late Professor Albert A. Bartlett said “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”  We fully agree. I often wonder if the …

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NPG Re-Issues its Call for an 80 Percent Cut in Legal Immigration

Alexandria, VA (May 11, 2014) – Observing that mass immigration has by default become the nation’s de facto population policy, Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Don Mann has released an updated position paper.  The paper, Toward Negative Population Growth, restates NPG’s call for an eighty percent reduction of annual legal immigration into the U.S. NPG’s proposal would reduce the current …

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Perpetual Population Growth is the Aim of Washington’s Immigration Policy, Says NPG Head Don Mann

Alexandria, VA (March 13, 2014) – NPG President Don Mann, in his March 2014 President’s Column, states that the current drive in Congress and the White House to double immigration grows out of the widely held but misguided conviction that immigration-fed population growth ensures economic growth. Mann rejects the warning of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors that the slowing …

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New NPG Paper Foresees Rising Scarcity and Costs of Non-Renewable Natural Resources

Alexandria, VA (March 10, 2014) – For more than two centuries, the United States and the rest of the industrialized world have taken for granted the abundance and affordability of the high quality non-renewable natural resources (NNRs) – minerals, metals, and fossil fuels – vital to maintaining and expanding their high-consumption industrial societies. These were “the good old days” that …

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