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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Our Plundered Planet and a Future of Less
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Walter Younquist is a veteran observer and commentator on world and U.S. resource and population trends, and the precarious balance between them. A frequent contributor to NPG publications, Youngquist draws on lengthy professional experience as a petroleum geologist which has taken him to over 70 countries. His title here, A Future of …
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Sobering Wisdom from the Elders (An NPG Booknote)
NPG adherents, along with all Americans hoping for population sanity, will find stirring essays and insights of longtime advocates of population reduction in the just-released book Facing the Population Challenge: Wisdom from the Elders. Edited by Marilyn Hempel, the book is a project of Blue Planet United – a nonprofit …
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Toward Negative Population Growth: Cutting Legal Immigration by Four-Fifths (An NPG Position Paper)
Mass immigration, whether through established or extra-legal channels, has by default become the nation’s de facto population policy. In 2005, new immigrants (legal and illegal) plus births to immigrants accounted for about 2.3 million people – more than 60 percent of America’s average annual population growth at the time.1 In 2008, studies projected that immigration (legal, illegal, and the…
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