One million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, endangering ecosystems that people all over
Continue ReadingEnvironment effects of population growth will be devastating for the planet. President Donald Mann, head of Negative Population Growth, Inc., (NPG) has announced the release of a new research paper that focuses on how the failure to rein-in population growth in the U.S. is greatly hampering progress on our nation’s efforts to end global warming.
Continue ReadingThe summer of 2018 was a moment when the ecological future became our present reality. A heatwave baked the entire Northern Hemisphere, killing dozens from Quebec to Japan. In Europe, nuclear power plants shut down because river water that cools their reactors was too warm. The most destructive wildfires in California’s history turned more than a million acres to ash, while a study in the journal PLOS Medicine projected a five-fold rise i
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During the month of April, this ad appeared in the The Washington Examiner, The Washington Times and E-The Environmental Magazine. Please click the photo to view the ad as it appeared in these publications. EARTH DAY 2019 ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE TO AMERICA THERE’S MORE TO WORRY ABOUT THAN CLIMATE CHANGE! While concerned citizens across the U.S. and around the world work hard to …
Continue ReadingCites Critical Need for Balanced Economic Growth and Population – Donald Mann, President of Negative Population Growth (NPG), wrote a significant position paper in 1999 that addressed the formidable problem of how mankind can create an optimal balance between economic growth and population in the 21st century
Continue ReadingIf you are driving down a road at 60 miles an hour and suddenly notice that you are headed straight for a tree, it is good to know this so that you can do something about it. Information about the future we are headed for as a planet is readily available, and makes it clear that it is filled with dangers we can do something about.
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The human population on Earth has quadrupled in the past century. It is degrading the capability of Earth’s natural systems to support us. Mathematically, that astonishing growth must stop. How it will stop, and at what level and condition, is thoroughly obscure, but there are changes afoot….
Continue ReadingSave the Earth…Don’t Give Birth The story behind the simplest, yet trickiest, way to help save our endangered planet. by Jonathan Austen An NPG Booknote by Edwin Rubenstein “We humans are young, greedy, inexperienced killer primates. We have recklessly allowed our population and consumption to rise beyond the capacity of the Earth. The rise in human populations is the underlying cause …
Continue ReadingNATIONAL HONEY BEE DAY – AUGUST 18TH Celebrating Our Very Busy and Very Important Friends It is traditional for all of us to have learned about “the birds and the bees” at a key point when we were growing up. However, the reality is that few of us really learned much about the bees.  Today, the most many of us know …
Continue ReadingPopulation Growth Continues to Threaten Fragile Waterways Across the Country. Americans have a deep and historic love for their rivers, estuaries, and lakes says NPG President Don Mann. But are they loving them to death? They place enormous and at times conflicting demands on the nation’s tens of thousands of waterways: pure water for drinking and industrial use, plant and home sites…
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