Out of Touch with Reality: Why the World Won’t Blame Overpopulation for Climate Change
This new book offers consolation and validation to those who have been consistently ignored about the seriousness of the overpopulation issue.
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Tomorrow’s Tumbleweeds: Will 21st Century Boomtowns Go Bust?
Boomtowns are an iconic feature of America’s history, one that often hews to a familiar template: a small burg is rapidly transformed to a bustling center of commerce, usually following the discovery of a precious metal or a fossil fuel.
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The Myth of Growth-Driven Prosperity
There are emerging signs that better human economic security and welfare can be ensured through steady population decline. Economists, however, disagree, obsessed as they are with one measure of wealth: rising gross domestic product (GDP).
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Eco-Decency and the Need to Start Asking the Right Questions
Biden’s immigration system was a mess; Trump’s is no better, and neither path will bring us closer to a saner policy approach.
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Common Sense Immigration Policy in an Era of Theatrics
Biden’s immigration system was a mess; Trump’s is no better, and neither path will bring us closer to a saner policy approach.
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Why ZPG Did Not Achieve Its Goal to Lower Population and Why We Can’t Grow-On Forever
American citizens who listened to the wisdom of ZPG (Zero Population Growth) back in the 1970s may be wondering if their decision to have a small family, 0-2 children, actually contributed to the lowering of US population.
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Uncrowded, Inc.
The stark divide between the proverbial ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ has been a feature in America since the founding of the nation. It’s a disparity that’s often garishly reflected by material goods – the number and size of homes, cars and many other items accrued through success or inherited by bloodline – but it’s a chasm that’s more accurately assessed through a metric of access; from educational and professional opportunities to medical and legal services.
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Embracing the Birth Dearth Part 2: The Right Stuff
Governments worldwide have spent huge sums of money to persuade, compel, cajole, or even trick couples into producing more humans (for those same governments, of course). They’ve tried cash grants, huge tax deductions, generous maternal and paternal leave policies, flexible work arrangements, subsidized daycare, and more. They’ve also tried banning abortion, suppressing contraception use, and serving up public lectures on the virtues of “traditional” family structures. That hasn’t worked, either. None of it ever will.
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W.W.L.D. – What Would the Lorax Do? The Dismantling of Environmental Protections Under Trump 2.0
This paper examines the impact of the implementation of Trump 2.0 (his second term) on the environment.
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The Fire, The Fury & The Footprint
Naturally occurring events such as wild fires and hurricanes can turn into horrific calamities when they slam into cities and towns to consume human lives and wreck ever larger scales of destruction, filling the news cycles with heartbreaking accounts of loss, harrowing reports from survivors and the heroic actions of emergency crews.
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