A short definition of sustainability is the management of environmental and resource systems so that their ability to support future generations is not diminished.
Continue ReadingDuring the 1960s and 1970s, an ideological shift occurred in America with respect to the value of further growth.
Continue ReadingPeterson calls it “global aging”, but he is really talking about the developed world,* particularly western Europe and Japan.
Continue ReadingThe Population-Environment Connection: Who Makes It? NPG Special Report by NPG April 1999 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version NPG
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Illegal immigration, increasingly profitable for powerful interests, has added as many as 12.5 million to the U.S. population since 1960. Ending the flow will demand a national consensus to fully fund enforcement, insulate it from pressures, and mandate electronic verification of work eligibility. The public social costs of illegal settlement must be …
Continue ReadingThe second half of the Twentieth Century was a period of unprecedented and remarkable population growth in the United States.
Continue ReadingMuch has been written about the growing level of immigration into the United States over the past two decades.
Continue ReadingPopulation growth only postpones the day of reckoning. According to the Census Bureau’s 1992 most likely “medium”‘ projection, there is the troubling prospect of nearly 400 million Americans by mid-century.
Continue ReadingIn 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus tried to inform “people that a human population, like a population of any other species, had the potential to increase exponentially were it not limited by finite support from its resource base.
Continue ReadingIn 1798, an English clergyman published an essay about human population growth that served to define the terms of debate on this issue for the next two hundred years.
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