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    Too Many People Chasing Too Few Healthcare Providers: How Population Growth Can Make You Sick

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    Disease Pandemics and the Population Factor

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    Losing Population and Loving It

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    In Praise of Population Decline

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    Hotels Say They Can’t Find US-Born Workers; Statistics Show They Don’t Try Hard Enough

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    Migrant Labor and US Agriculture

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    The High Cost of Cheap Immigration Detentions

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    Strictly Accountable: A Call for the Tough Love of Real Solutions

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    Immigration Will Drive U.S. Population Growth Throughout the 21st Century

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    Spoiler Alert: ‘Smart Growth’ Won’t Save the Day

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    Immigration Reduction: Xenophobia and Racism? Or, Common Sense and Pragmatism in a Crowded Nation?

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    Numbers, Noise, and Nonsense: We Must Stop Forcing Wildlife Off the Planet

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    The Point of No Return

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    Adversity for Biodiversity: A Reflection on My Experience at COP15

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    Modern Megadrought: Population, Denial, and Crisis in the American Southwest

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    Crowded Classrooms, Teacher Shortages ā€“ Demographic Changes Could Help Our Nationā€™s Troubled Schools, But Only If We Let Them

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    The Verdict Is In: To Be Anti-Growth Is to Be Pro-Human

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    US Immigrant Population is at a Record High: Ending Remain in Mexico is Only Making It Worse! (An NPG Commentary)

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    How Ukrainian Refugees Invaded the U.S. Southwest Border

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    Japanā€™s Ride into the Demographic Danger Zone ā€“ and Why Itā€™s Nothing to Fear

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    Life Expectancy Drives U.S. and World Population Growth

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    Will 2022 Be the First Year of U.S. Negative Population Growth?

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    On the Wrong Track: Why the Endangered Species Act Isnā€™t Enough

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    How Covid, Climate, The Cartels Reshape U.S. Refugee Policy

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    The New York Timesā€™ Readers Want to Re-Write the Paperā€™s Gloomy Narrative on Population Decline

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    Donā€™t Call It a Crisis: The Natural Explanation Behind Collapsing Birth Rates

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    The Global Gag Rule: A Lesson in Unintended Consequences

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    Yale Researchers Debunk the Myth of 11 Million Illegal Immigrants

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    Doctors Take Responsibility For Overpopulation, Again

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    A Message Called “Covid-19”

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    Will Affluence Ruin the Environment?

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    WHAT GIVES OVERPOPULATION ITS LEGS?

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    Will U.S. Population Fall in 2021?

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    Why Population Really Disappeared from the News and Became Politically Incorrect!

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    Climate Change, Migration and National Security

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    CORONAVIRUS AND HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH

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    The True Environmental Disaster – The Silence on Our Growing Overpopulation

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    Human Fertility and Climate Change

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    The Push for Open Borders: The Quest to Destroy Americaā€™s Future

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    RETHINKING U.S. REFUGEE POLICY

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    Humans are Making Oceans Warmer, Deeper, and Life Threatening

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    It’s Complicated: The Role of Land in Global Warming

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    Mountain West Confronts the Population Pressures of the 21st Century

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    Population Density Stress Is Killing Us Now!

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    The Asylum Crisis: What Can We Do?

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    The UN Species Extinction Report: Is It Science, or Something Else?

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    Telling and Selling the Overpopulation Issue: Why Climate Change Gets So Much More Attention

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    Global Warming: Has Complacency (Finally) Yielded to Panic?

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    An Essay on a Sustainable Economy (An NPG Position Paper)

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    Controlling Population in A Strong Economy: Is Feminism The Answer?

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    LOOKING AHEAD

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    AFRICAN IMMIGRATION HURTS THE U.Sā€¦AND AFRICA

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    Feminism, Migration, And Population Policy: A Letter To My Friends

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    Save the Earthā€¦Donā€™t Give Birth (NPG Booknote)

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    America’s Insane Asylum Policy Threatens National Security

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    Population Threats to America’s Rivers, Estuaries, and Lakes

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    1965 and All That: Federal Laws That Increase Population and Illegal Immigration

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    Immigration, Population and the Labor Market: Toward a Fair System for American Workers

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    Renewables to the Rescue? The Myths, The Reality, and Why a Smaller U.S. Population is Needed to Save the Planet

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    The Impact of Immigrant Children on America’s Public Schools

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    How Millennials Are Slowing U.S. Population Growth and Enhancing Sustainability

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    To Grow the Economy Increase Human Capital, Not the Number of Humans

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    Resurgent Pro-Natalism in the Trump Administration

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    AMERICAā€™S GROUNDWATER: ARE WE DOING ENOUGH TO SAVE IT?

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    Collision Course: Infrastructure and U.S. Population Growth

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    Reforming Birthright Citizenship: A Must For U.S. Population Policy

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    Formulating Immigration Policy in a Time of Reform: A Plan For The Compensated Repatriation of Illegal Aliens

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    Earth Day and Population: A Missed Opportunity

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    Chain Migration: How Immigration Begets More Immigration

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    THE IMPACT OF U.S. POPULATION GROWTH ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

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    Framework of the Future

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    Growth of Foreign-Born Population Surges as U.S. Economy Recovers

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    Crushing Biodiversity with the Weight of the Human Race

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    THE SINGULAR CENTURY

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    Sanctuary Cities: Politics Overshadow Responsible U.S. Immigration Policies (An NPG Position Paper)

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    OVERPOPULATION: THE ULTIMATE EXPLOITER

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    The Impact of Refugees on the Size and Security of the U.S. Population

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    The Scale of Things and Demographic Fatigue

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    The Negative Economic Impact of Immigration on American Workers

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    Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment

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    There is Still Time (NPG Booknote)

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    IMMIGRATION DRIVES U.S. POPULATION GROWTH

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    ALL IN THE FAMILY: Preferences for Relatives Drive U.S. Immigration and Population Growth

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    DYING OF THIRST: POPULATION GROWTH, CLIMATE CHANGE AGGRAVATE WATER SHORTAGES

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    GEONOMICS 101

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    The Other Soil Erosion: Long-Term Erosion of Our Productive Farmland Base from U.S. Population Growth

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    A Geomoment of Affluence Between Two Austere Eras

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    The President’s Column: NPG Statement on Population

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    Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot – Photo Essay: Humanity Spreads – Life Supports Shrink (NPG Booknote)

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    FOOD SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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    Why We Need A Smaller U.S. Population And How We Can Achieve It (An NPG Position Paper)

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    Remembering the Immigration Act of 1965: the 50th Anniversary of a Population Game-Changer

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    State of the Union Address: Touting More Growth with More People

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    Foreign-Born Population Keeps Rising: Immigration Trumps Critical Need for U.S. Population Reduction

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    More Nonsense on Inexhaustible Resources from The Wall Street Journal

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    TWO WHITE HATS (An NPG Footnote)

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    THE TWO CHILD FAMILY

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    An Essay on a Sustainable Economy (An NPG Position Paper)

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    A No-Growth, Steady-State Economy Must Be Our Goal (An NPG Position Paper)

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    Urgently Needed Now: A National Policy to Reduce U.S. Population (An NPG Position Paper)

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    Our Plundered Planet and a Future of Less

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    Sobering Wisdom from the Elders (An NPG Booknote)

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    Toward Negative Population Growth: Cutting Legal Immigration by Four-Fifths (An NPG Position Paper)

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    Whatever Happened to the Good Old Days?

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    Ecological Economist Brian Czechā€™s Supply Shock: A Persuasive Road Map to a Steady-State Economy (NPG Book Review)

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    CAPITALISM: GROWTH, GREED AND COLLAPSE

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    Population Politics: An Australian Case Study (NPG Footnote)

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    Hurtling Toward 50 Million: California Expands the Welcome Mat for Illegal Immigration (NPG Footnote)

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    Overpopulation and Overconsumption: Where Should We Focus? (Revised)

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    Growth Slows, But No End in Sight in Latest Census Projections

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    Where have you Gone, Harry Reid? (NPG Footnote)

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    Senate Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill (NPG Footnote)

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    Revisiting the Chesapeake Bay
    The Effect of Population Growth on Americaā€™s Largest Estuary

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    Little Known Presidential Population Leadership

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    The Southwest: Ground-Zero for Global Warming

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    Happy Days are Here Again?

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    The Meaning of Sustainability

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    Two White Hats (NPG Footnote)

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    The Sources of Unemployment

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    Is Fracking an Answer? To What?

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    The UN 2010 Population Projections: A Proposal

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    Australia Considers a Population Policy: Any Lessons for a Drifting USA?

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    The Apolcalypse is on Schedule

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    All in the Family: Preferences for Relatives Drive U.S. Immigration and Population Growth

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    NOVEMBERā€™S LESSONS

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    GEOENGINEERING AND THE MISPLACED FAITH IN GROWTH

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    PEAK OIL 2005 (NPG Footnote)

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    The Great Silence: U.S. Population Policy

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    HAITIā€™S PROBLEMS, AND THEIR LESSONS

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    Immigration and America’s Unchosen Future

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    Book Review – 2045: A Story of Our Future (NPG Book Review)

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    PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS SHOULD EQUIP GOVERNMENT TO ADDRESS DOMESTIC POPULATION GROWTH

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    Population Policy for a Depression

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    Population: An Unacknowledged Presence At World Food Crisis Talks

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    THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS

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    Peak Coal

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    THOUGHTS ON IMMIGRATION INTO THE UNITED STATES

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    Peak Oil. Are We There Yet?

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    A FALSE CHOICE: CITIZENSHIP OR MASS DEPORTATION – A REALISTIC VIEW OF TODAYā€™S IMMIGRATION DEBATE

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    TOWARD NEGATIVE POPULATION GROWTH: CUTTING LEGAL IMMIGRATION BY FOUR-FIFTHS

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    Zero Tolerance for Illegal Immigration: An Urgent Policy Need (An NPG Position Paper)

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    Proposed National Population Policy

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    Should New Orleans be Rebuilt? (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

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    A Vast Social Experiment: The Immigration Act of 1965

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    Spending Our Great Inheritance; Then What? (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

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    Whatever Happened to the Teeming Millions? (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

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    SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE FEAR OF AGING

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    Minerals Move People (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

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    Encircling the Peak of World Oil Production (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

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    Peak Oil: A turning point for humankind (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

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    The Steady-State Economy: What It Is, Why We Need It

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    AWAKENING? (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

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    COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (NPG Bootnote)

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    Land, Water and Energy Versus the Ideal U.S. Population

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    The End of Fossil Fuels: Part 2. Twilight or Dawn?

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    The End of Fossil Fuels Part 1. How Long the Twilight?

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    The New American Century

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    HUMANITARIAN IMMIGRATION: THIRD WORLD ā€œPERSECUTIONā€ SWAMPS THE WEST

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    It’s the Numbers Stupid!

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    Forecasting the Unknowable: The U.N. “World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision

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    DIVERGING DEMOGRAPHY, CONVERGING DESTINIES: GROWTH, INTERDEPENDENCE, MIGRATION AND WORLD INSTABILITIES

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    Amnesty: Overpopulation by Fiat

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    An NPG Commentary: The United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development – A Counter-Productive Exercise in Futility (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

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    A No-Growth, Steady-State Economy Must Be Our Goal (An NPG Position Paper)

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    The Environmental Future – How Do We Get There From Here?

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    Toward a Stationary U.S. Population (NPG Special Report)

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    The Fate of America

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    GROWTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR STOPPING GROWTH IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES

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    Better Not Bigger (NPG Booknote)

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    AN ESSAY ON A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY

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    THE GROWTH MANAGEMENT DELUSION

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    The Wrong Apocalypse (NPG Booknote)

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    The Population-Environment Connection: Who Makes It? (NPG Special Report)

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    Ending Illegal Immigration: Make It Unprofitable

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    A TALE OF TWO FUTURES: CHANGING SHARES OF U.S. POPULATION GROWTH (NPG Booknote)

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    THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON UNITED STATES’ POPULATION SIZE: 1950 TO 2050

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    SOCIAL SECURITY: THE PONZI PATH TO DYSTOPIA

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    MALTHUS: MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER

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    A Bicentennial Malthusian Essay: Conservation, Population and the Indifference to Limits (NPG Booknote)

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    OUR DEMOGRAPHIC FUTURE: WHY POPULATION POLICY MATTERS TO AMERICA

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    Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis (NPG Special Report)

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    NIXON AND AMERICAN POPULATION POLICY: ANNIVERSARY OF A MISSED OPPORTUNITY (NPG Footnote)

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    OVERPOPULATION AND OVERCONSUMPTION: WHERE SHOULD WE FOCUS?

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    IN SUPPORT OF A REVOLUTION…

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    OFFICIAL OPTIMISM, JOURNALISTIC HYPE: THE UN 1996 POPULATION PROJECTIONS

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    SUSTAINABILITY, PART III: CLIMATE, POPULATION, AND UNCED+5

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    Immigration and U.S. Population Growth: An Environmental Perspective (NPG Special Report)

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    A “U.S. POPULATION POLICY” – LET’S TALK

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    Uncoupling Growth from Prosperity: The U.S. Versus Japan (NPG Footnote)

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    THEY ASKED THE WRONG PEOPLE

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    Stormy Seas and Head in the Sand (NPG Footnote)

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    Reinventing Malthus for the 21st Century: A Bicentennial Event on Malthus’ Original Population Essay (NPG Special Report)

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    Sustainability, Part II: A Proposal to Foundations

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    Sustainability, Part I: On the Edge of an Oxymoron

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    The Case Against Immigration (NPG Book Review)

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    HUDDLED EXCESSES (NPG Footnote)

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    Ending the Explosion: Population Policies and Ethics for a Humane Future (NPG Booknote)

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    CHINA AS AN “EMERGING” NATION

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    Population and The PCSD (NPG Booknote)

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    A TALE OF TEN CITIES

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    IT’S TIME TO STOP AT TWO

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    The Pope’s Visit: Is Mass Immigration a Moral Imperative? (NPG Footnote)

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    Political Asylum: Achilles’ Heel of Immigration Control

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    The Cowering Giant (NPG Footnote)

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    Confronting The 21st Century’s Hidden Crisis: Reducing Human Numbers by 80%

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    IN PRAISE OF PATRIOTISM (NPG Footnote)

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    We’re Already Bailing Out Mexico (NPG Footnote)

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    A NEW LOOK AT THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE Ā (NPG Booknote)Ā 

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    A Checklist for CIR (NPG Footnote)

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    Clinton on Population, Part 2: Waiting for Al

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    The Case for Reducing Immigration from Over One Million to 100,000 a year (An NPG Position Paper)

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    Clinton on Population, Part 1., Sobering News From The Real World

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    The Caribbean Immigration Centrifuge: A Portent of Continued Immigration Growth (NPG Footnote)

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    DOWN WITH GROWTHISM! (NPG Footnote)

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    The Costs of Overpopulation (NPG Booknote)

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    The Cairo Conference on Population and Development (An NPG Position Paper)

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    Perspectives on Immigration: The Issue is Overpopulation (NPG Footnote)

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    THE CAIRO CONFERENCE: FEMINISTS VS. THE POPE

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    THE TWO CHILD FAMILY

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    INTO THE WIND… UNEMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE REFORM

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    THE TIME CRUSADE

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    Demography and Health Care Reform

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    THE TIGHTENING CONFLICT: POPULATION, ENERGY USE, AND THE ECOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE

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    Alice in Wonderland: U.S. Immigration Policy

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    EPA’s Population Non-Policy (NPG Footnote)

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    A BELEAGUERED PRESIDENT, A FIZZLED “ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE”, AND A NAFTA TIME BOMB

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    A Congenial Job for the Vice PresidentĀ (NPG Footnote)Ā 

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    CARIBBEAN BOAT PEOPLE: CLINTON’S FIRST CRISIS? (NPG Footnote)

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    What We Can Learn from the Missing Airline Passengers

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    HURRICANE ANDREW: THE POPULATION FACTOR

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    Why We Need a Smaller U.S. Population and How We Can Achieve It (An NPG Position Paper)

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    The Biologist and the Economist: Is Dialogue Possible?

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    IMMIGRATION AND JOBS: THE PROCESS OF DISPLACEMENT

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    The L.A. Riots and U.S. Population NonPolicy (NPG Footnote)

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    IMMIGRATION, JOBS & WAGES: THE MISUSES OF ECONOMETRICS

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    REFUGEE AND ASYLUM POLICY: NATIONAL PASSION VERSUS NATIONAL INTEREST

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    FREE TRADE AND CHEAP LABOR: THE PRESIDENT’S DILEMMA

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    POPULATION AND THE “EIS”

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    OIL, EGYPT AND ISRAEL: THE VIEW IN 1995

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    The Optimum Population Series

    The Kingdom of the Deaf

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    The Most Overpopulated Nation

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    The Plight of the Chesapeake

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    You Can’t Go West. Stress in the High Country

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    Optimal City Size and Population Density for the 21st Century

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    HOW TO INFLUENCE FERTILITY: THE EXPERIENCE SO FAR

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    Energy and Population: Transitional Issues and the Eventual Limits

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    Balancing Humans in the Biosphere: Escaping the Overpopulation Trap

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    NEIGHBORS’ PROBLEMS, OUR PROBLEMS: POPULATION GROWTH IN CENTRAL AMERICA

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    MANNING THE AMERICAN MILITARY: DEMOGRAPHICS AND NATIONAL SECURITY

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    SUSTAINABLE IMMIGRATION: LEARNING TO SAY NO

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    POLITICAL CONFRONTATION WITH ECONOMIC REALITY: MASS IMMIGRATION IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL AGE

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    Land, Energy and Water: The Constraints Governing Ideal U.S. Population Size

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    HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE: THE DEMOGRAPHIC ROUTE TO OPTIMAL POPULATION SIZE

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    RECONCILING TEXAS AND BERKELEY: THE CONCEPT OF OPTIMUM POPULATION

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    The Second Great Wall of China: Evolution of a Successful Policy of Population Control

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    “NIMBYs” and the Fence

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    Secure Identification: The Weak Link In Immigration Control

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    Too Many Old People or Too Many Americans? Thoughts About the Pension Panic

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    Europe In the Energy Transition: The Case for a Smaller Population

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    Immigration and the U.S. Energy Shortage (An NPG PositionĀ Paper)

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    Family Responsibility (An NPG PositionĀ Paper)

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    A Population Focus for U.S. Aid

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    Beyond Family Planning (An NPG Position Paper)

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