Clinton on Population, Part 2: Waiting for Al An NPG Forum Paper By Lindsey Grant February 1995 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Tom Lehrer used to sing a song about Vice President Hubert Humphrey: “Whatever became of Hubert? … Are you sad? are you cross? are you gathering moss? … Oh, Hubert what happened to you?” (My …
Continue ReadingThe evidence is overwhelming that with its present population of over 260 million, the U.S. is already vastly overpopulated in terms of the long-range carrying capacity of its resources and environment.
Continue ReadingThe Clinton administration is at mid-term, and the political landscape has been changed by the Republican landslide last November.
Continue ReadingWashington’s agreement with Castro last fall to increase Cuban immigration to at least 20,000 a year once again sacrifices much needed immigration restraint for foreign policy quick fixes.
Continue ReadingAcceptance of Proposition 187 by California voters will undoubtedly lead to an acceleration of name-calling by advocates of continued high levels of immigration.
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Continue ReadingThe preparations for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) to be held in Cairo, September 5-13, 1994, leave me convinced that the Conference will offer a totally inadequate response to the crisis confronting humanity as a result of the relentless growth of world population.
Continue ReadingGiven recent budgetary problems, it may be difficult to convince Californians that the drain on public services is not the principal issue in determining how much immigration we can afford.
Continue ReadingThe final preparatory conference for the Cairo meeting (“PrepCom III”) was held in New York City in April.
Continue ReadingSeen from a reasonably detached viewpoint — from Mars, let us say — the arguments for arresting U.S. population growth would seem so compelling as to raise the question “why isn’t it being done.”
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