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- April 12, 2021
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$75 Billion in Flood Damages Due to Climate Change
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- January 15, 2021
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January 19, 2020 $75 Billion in Flood Damage Due to Climate Change  Flooding is One of the Most Costly Natural Disasters in the U.S. A new study from Stanford researchers concludes that climate change has caused nearly $75 billion in flood damage, in the U.S., in the past three decades. This research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National …
Continue ReadingNew NPG Forum Paper Examines the Connection Between Affluence, Consumerism, and the Environment
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- January 5, 2021
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Will the Environment Continue to Degrade as the Affluent Continue to Consume?
“If 2020 teaches us anything, it’s that the next crisis is likely right around the corner, and could be prevented, or at least contained, if we act swiftly. A pandemic that scientists long warned was likely to occur, occurred, and has already killed well over 240,000 people in the U.S. Dozens of large wildfires – the latest evidence of the climate
WHAT GIVES OVERPOPULATION ITS LEGS?
- Dr. Karen I. Shragg
- December 8, 2020
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What more can be said about the oppression of overpopulation that I and my colleagues have not pontificated on for decades? Hopefully this cartoon I commissioned from artist Rah Lee of Singapore can help us to understand what forces have allowed us to become overpopulated in the first place.
Continue ReadingThe Danger of Heat Waves
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- September 7, 2020
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When Record-Breaking Temperatures Point Towards a Hotter Future for All Heatwaves on the west coast and in the southwest region are keeping temperatures high and possibly record-breaking.  On August 16, the temperature in Death Valley, California reached 130 degrees in the afternoon. According to the Washington Post, the high temperature marks what could be the new world record for “the …
Continue ReadingHumans are Making Oceans Warmer, Deeper, and Life Threatening
- Edwin S. Rubenstein
- December 17, 2019
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Without oceans, climate change would be much worse. The oceans directly absorb about a quarter of the CO2 humans spew into the atmosphere. They also take over 90% of the heat from global warming, acting as a buffer against even greater warming. But the oceans themselves are in trouble from climate change, as the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) clearly shows.
Continue ReadingNew NPG Forum Paper Details Opportunities to Combat Global Warming
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- December 17, 2019
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Negative Population Growth, Inc. (NPG) has released a new Forum paper detailing various opportunities to combat global warming. The paper, titled Humans are Making Oceans Warmer, Deeper, and Life Threatening, identifies the roles of nations in climate change, examines the many ways humans can utilize oceans to stop the earth’s temperature from rising, and discusses the detrimental effects of single-use plastics.
Continue ReadingNPG is Pleased to Announce the Winners of Our 2019 NPG Student Poster Scholarship for Contest B
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- November 7, 2019
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NPG is pleased to offer challenging scholarship contests as part of our mission to enlist a new generation of activists who will be focused on calling attention to the dangers of population growth. We send our thanks to all of our members and friends who have so generously contributed – as well as our appreciation for the tens of thousands …
Continue ReadingIt’s Complicated: The Role of Land in Global Warming
- Edwin S. Rubenstein
- October 28, 2019
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There they go again: Another massive UN climate change report – 107 authors, from 53 countries, examining 7,000 research articles. Another exercise in denial. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on land, rolled out in Geneva in early August, takes on two questions: how land use contributes to climate change, and how climate change affects land.
Continue ReadingNPG Teachers’ Packets Going Out To U.S. Classrooms
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- October 17, 2019
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Educational Efforts Reach Tens of Thousands of Students. As the federal government prepares to launch the 2020 U.S. Census in April, America’s teachers are enthusiastically requesting Negative Population Growth’s 2019 Teachers’ Packets to facilitate classroom discussions on U.S. population size and growth.
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