The post-mortems marking the 25th anniversary of Watergate earlier in 1997 overshadowed another quarter-century milestone of the Richard Nixon era – one of even greater long-term consequences for the nation’s future.
Continue ReadingAmericans Have Spoken: No Further Population Growth by Dr. Leon Bouvier Senior Fellow, Negative Population Growth Introduction “The optimal balance, in the case of the United States, would seem to me to have been surpassed when the American population reached, at very maximum, two hundred million people, and perhaps a good deal less.” 1 These words written recently by one …
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The term “sustainable development” has become fashionable, but it is regularly used in the sense of “sustainable growth,” a self-contradictory concept beloved by those who want to continue at the same old stand growth as a solution to all problems and yet couch it in terms that will not offend environmentalists. The …
Continue ReadingFood, Energy, and Society by David and Marcia Pimentel, Editors University Press of Colorado, 1996, Revised Edition. Hardback. Food, Energy, and Society provides a detailed evaluation of the link between two of the greatest problems we face today – uncontrolled population growth and the destruction of our various life-supporting systems – food, land, water, and energy. Editors David and Marcia …
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Confronting The 21st Century’s Hidden Crisis: Reducing Human Numbers by 80% An NPG Forum Paper by J. Kenneth Smail August 1995 J. Kenneth Smail is a Professor of Anthropology Department of Anthropology/Sociology at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio My position is simply stated. Within the next half-century, it will be essential for the …
Continue ReadingIn this tough-minded, lucid book, Leon Bouvier and Lindsey Grant examine the inevitable and escalating environmental degradation that will result if population growth pushes the limits of our already strained…
Continue ReadingBy the time he is inaugurated on Jan. 20, President-elect Bill Clinton may be faced with a record flood of both Haitian and Cuban boat people.
Continue ReadingThe scale of destruction caused by Hurricane Andrew in south Florida is shocking.
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Life Expectancy Drives U.S. and World Population Growth An NPG Forum Paper by Nathan Keyfitz June 1992 When population issues arise in government or the press, economists’ advice is regularly sought, even though modern post-Keynesian economics offers very little methodological help in dealing with secular change or limits. Biology is perhaps the …
Continue ReadingClick 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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