No, it cannot. It is obviously not possible for our U.S. population to keep growing indefinitely. But we can, and do, pretend that it can, and, most unfortunately, our national immigration policy is based on that mistaken belief. But pretending does not make it so. …
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Christopher Clugston, author of the NPG Forum paper Whatever Happened to the Good Old Days?, is an ecological and resource economist who has been researching the economics of Non-renewable Natural Resources (NNRs) since 2006. This paper summarizes and updates his 2012 book: Scarcity – Humanity’s Final Chapter? …
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Continue ReadingLooking back on 2013, my pick for the most useful and incisive book on our lethal addiction to economic growth and the alternative of a steady-state economy is Brian Czech’s Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Cross Roads and the Steady-State solution (New Society Publishers, 2013, 389 pages). If you are among the millions of Americans concerned about the destructive …
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Continue ReadingNPG promotes our goal to slow, halt, and eventually reverse U.S. population growth through a wide variety of educational and publications programs. Our programs provide the solid information, insightful analysis, and practical policy prescriptions necessary to understand the complex population issues facing our country and effectively implement solutions.  The oldest and largest publisher of original source materials in the U.S. …
Continue ReadingNPG is a national non-profit membership organization founded in 1972. Our primary purpose is to educate the American public and elected officials regarding the damaging effects of overpopulation on our nation’s environment, resources, and quality of life. NPG advocates a smaller, truly sustainable United States population accomplished through education, access to healthcare, two child families, and legislative action to end …
Continue ReadingThe Washington Post recently reported that the Obama administration has approved a new proposal for natural gas exports, this time off the coast of Maryland. The recent advent of “fracking” as a drilling method has resulted in a dramatic increase in requests to explore, drill, and push for domestic production. As Lindsey Grant explained in Is Fracking an Answer? To What?: “Hydraulic …
Continue ReadingAlexandria, VA – There is a limit to how fast and how far the American economy can grow – and we’re approaching it soon. That’s the message Negative Population Growth’s president, Donald Mann, has posted on the organization’s website, www.NPG.org. Mann, who has headed up NPG since its founding in 1972, is advocating that the U.S. start moving toward a …
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