Why We Need A Smaller U.S. Population And How We Can Achieve It (An NPG Position Paper)
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version This paper was originally published in July 1992, some 22 years ago when our population was 256 million. In that short space of time our population, now 320 million, increased by 64 million, an astonishing 25% growth in a little over two decades, or roughly 30 million per decade. The problem is …
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Remembering the Immigration Act of 1965: the 50th Anniversary of a Population Game-Changer
Half a century ago this year, Congress enacted – and President Lyndon Johnson enthusiastically signed – a law broadly amending the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. This 1965 Act set up a radically different and far more receptive immigration regime for the United States. …
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State of the Union Address: Touting More Growth with More People
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version State of the Union Address: Touting More Growth with More People An NPG Forum Paper by David Simcox February 2015 INTRODUCTION The President’s annual laundry-listing State of the Union address on January 20, 2015 has already been parsed and probed for advantages and potential traps by major media, political think tanks, interest …
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Foreign-Born Population Keeps Rising: Immigration Trumps Critical Need for U.S. Population Reduction
Census projections proclaim that, with Americans’ fertility falling and deaths soon to begin rising, immigration – not natural increase – will become the principal driver of U.S. population growth by the early 2030s.
That transition in our population dynamics may come even sooner, barring serious reductions in U.S. immigration intake…
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More Nonsense on Inexhaustible Resources from The Wall Street Journal
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version More Nonsense on Inexhaustible Resources from The Wall Street Journal Over the years – even over the decades, long before it was absorbed into the Murdoch Empire – the inimitable Wall Street Journal has been a reliable source of baloney on the subject of prospects for infinite growth on a finite planet. …
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TWO WHITE HATS (An NPG Footnote)
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version NPG REPRINT Adversaries, naturally, tend to regard each other as not just wrong, but morally wrong. Those of us in the population movement tend to see the selfish motives in those who would encourage more immigration — and more population growth — to compete with our own workers and overtax our resources …
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THE TWO CHILD FAMILY
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version NPG REPRINT NPG has published over 140 NPG FORUM and NPG FOOTNOTE papers over the past 27 years. Most of them are fading from memory because they were topical or simply because of the mass of writing that assaults us all. Some of those papers, however, addressed concerns that are still very …
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An Essay on a Sustainable Economy (An NPG Position Paper)
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version We originally published this NPG Position Paper in 1999. We have published it again because we believe that the problems it addresses are still very much with us, and that our recommended solutions are as pertinent now as they were then. Executive Summary Since NPG was founded over a quarter century ago …
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A No-Growth, Steady-State Economy Must Be Our Goal (An NPG Position Paper)
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version We originally published this NPG Position Paper in 2002. We have published it again because we believe that the problems it addresses are still very much with us, and that our recommended solutions are as pertinent now as they were then. Executive Summary Economic growth in a finite world, which is …
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Urgently Needed Now: A National Policy to Reduce U.S. Population (An NPG Position Paper)
Thirty four years have passed since, in 1980, NPG published a 62 page booklet that I had written titled, Urgently Needed Now: A National Policy to Reduce U.S. Population. In that small booklet I tried to explain why we at NPG believed that such a policy was urgently needed. …
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