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| Focus on Florida: Population, Resources, and Quality of Life by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein Bouvier and Stein look at how Florida is bearing up under the pressure for more housing, roads, and schools. In recent years, Floridians have begun to address growth issues, but growth control efforts cannot succeed without addressing population increases. Because Florida has no plan to limit population growth, Bouvier and Stein warn, current population trends will generate even more traffic congestion and sprawl, open space will continue to vanish, and 16,000 new teachers will have to be hired every year to keep up with growing enrollments. Diminishing water quality and availability, air pollution, traffic congestion, and an overwhelmed infrastructure will cause a rapid deterioration of quality of life in Florida. View the executive summary, press release and survey. |
by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein |
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| Georgia's Dilemma: The Unintended Consequences of Population Growth by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein Bouvier and Stein look at how Georgia is bearing up under the pressure for more housing, roads, and commercial development. Because Georgia has no plan to limit population growth, Bouvier and Stein warn, current population trends will generate even more traffic congestion and sprawl, open space will continue to vanish, and approximately 6,000 new teachers will have to be hired annually to keep up with growing enrollments. Water quality and availability, air quality, traffic, congestion, and an overwhelmed infrastructure will cause a rapid deterioration of the quality of life Georgia is known for. View the pdf version, executive summary, accompanying survey and results. |
by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein |
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| Colorado's Population in 2050: A Road Paved With Good Intentions by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein Bouvier and Stein look at how Colorado is bearing up under the pressure for more housing, roads, and commercial development. Unlike many states, Coloradans recognize the urgent need to halt the spread of growth, but growth control efforts cannot succeed without addressing population increases. Because Colorado has no plan to limit population growth, Bouvier and Stein warn, current population trends will generate even more traffic congestion and sprawl, open space will continue to vanish, and approximately 5,000 new teachers will have to be hired annually to keep up with growing enrollments. Water quality and availability, air quality, traffic, congestion, and an overwhelmed infrastructure will cause a rapid deterioration of the quality of life Colorado is known for. View the accompanying survey results. |
by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein |
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| Towards a Stationary U.S. Population by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier Dr. Bouvier illustrates several population scenarios by manipulating fertility, mortality, and migration (the demographic variables) in various ways. The bottom line is positive: if we are patient, if we have the courage to adjust these demographic variables, especially immigration, then the United States can attain a smaller total population without enormous age bulges—in other words, the United States can become a true stationary population. |
by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier |
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| Maryland’s Population in 2050: Is Smart Growth Enough? by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein Bouvier and Stein look at how Maryland's counties are bearing up under the pressure for more housing and commercial development. Success, they say, depends upon a unified all-county commitment to confining new building to pre-determined locales combined with strong incentives to reduce the state's future population size. The authors note that Maryland is already one of the most densely populated states in the nation, and is already struggling not only with water quality but air quality in many regions. They conclude that for Smart Growth plans to have any chance of long-term success, steps must be taken to halt or substantially reduce the state's projected population increases. View the accompanying survey and results. |
by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein |
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| Virginia’s Population in 2050: Paying the Price for Uncontrolled Growth by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein In this report, Bouvier and Stein note that there is often a disconnect between what local communities want and what the state mandates. The authors survey a number of communities, and find that local neighborhoods do make progress in winning important regional battles, but without superior local control are unlikely to win the war. Can local communities ever prevail in the effort to overcome the huge financial leverage and political clout of the state's developers? Bouvier and Stein say "yes," but only if citizens work together on a variety of levels, federal, state and local. Bouvier and Stein conclude with an optimistic assessment that new community empowerment is leading to more effective grassroots action, and a renewed hope that Virginia residents can develop a sustainable economy and environment by reducing population growth. View the accompanying survey and results. |
by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier and Sharon McCloe Stein |
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| Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis by Albert A. Bartlett NPG is indeed privileged to be able to reprint "Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis" on the 20th anniversary of its first publication in the American Journal of Physics in September of 1978. Since then, it has been reprinted in full or abridged in over 30 different publications or proceedings. |
by Dr. Albert A. Bartlett |
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| Reinventing Malthus for the 21st Century: A Bicentennial Event on Malthus’ Original Population Essay |
by Anthony Wayne Smith |
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| Immigration and U.S. Population Growth: An Environmental Perspective by Mark Nowak This NPG Special Report, by NPG Fellow Mark Nowak, provides accurate, unpoliticized information for environmentalists working on the national immigration debate. With many environmental organizations debating whether their group should even acknowledge the role of immigration as an issue, this report is a great primer for those wanting to discuss this oft-overlooked component of our population policy. |
by Mark W. Nowak |
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| Americans Have Spoken: No Further Population Growth by Dr. Leon Bouvier Dr. Leon Bouvier provides an indepth dissection of results from a recent Roper Poll detailing American's perceptions on population growth. Results included in the report detail American's beliefs about community size, population policy and immigration levels to the United States. |
by Dr. Leon F. Bouvier |
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| Our Demographic Future: Why Population Policy Matters to America by Mark W. Nowak This intriguing piece takes a look at the beginnings of America's concern with overpopulation, and our surprising lack of a national population policy today. The first section describes the unfortunate abandonment of congressional support for changes deemed necessary by the Rockefeller Commission 25 years ago including President Nixon's dismissing of the Commission's recommendations even though the Commission had concluded that "no substantial benefits would result from continued growth of the nation's population." The second half of the piece asks, "Would life be better now had the Commission's recommendations been adopted? And will life be worse in the future because we dismissed the Commission's goals?" The conclusion outlines a plan for America to gradually reduce our vast numbers, and strive for implementation of the policies that for decades have been recognized as vital to our country's future. |
by Mark W. Nowak |
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| The Population-Environment Connection: Who Makes It? Compiled by NPG, this listing details the official population and migration positions of 29 national environmental and population organizations such as the Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, The Wilderness Society and Zero Population Growth. Contact information for each organization is included as well. |
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