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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Whatever Happened to the Good Old Days?
Christopher Clugston, author of the NPG Forum paper Whatever Happened to the Good Old Days?, is an ecological and resource economist who has been researching the economics of Non-renewable Natural Resources (NNRs) since 2006. This paper summarizes and updates his 2012 book: Scarcity – Humanity’s Final Chapter? …
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Ecological Economist Brian Czech’s Supply Shock: A Persuasive Road Map to a Steady-State Economy (NPG Book Review)
Looking back on 2013, my pick for the most useful and incisive book on our lethal addiction to economic growth and the alternative of a steady-state economy is Brian Czech’s Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Cross Roads and the Steady-State solution (New Society Publishers, 2013, 389 pages). If you are among the millions of Americans concerned about the destructive …
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CAPITALISM: GROWTH, GREED AND COLLAPSE
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version An NPG Forum Paper by Lindsey Grant “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” – Economist Kenneth Boulding, 1977 If there were one message I could imprint on the American mind, it would be this: Perpetual physical growth is impossible on a …
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Population Politics: An Australian Case Study (NPG Footnote)
Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition took power in Australia in September 2013, after winning a convincing election victory over the ruling Labor Party. Labor’s acquiescence in the country’s rapid population growth (which averaged 1.8 percent annually in the period from 2006 to 2011, peaking at 2.2 percent in 2008) …
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Hurtling Toward 50 Million: California Expands the Welcome Mat for Illegal Immigration (NPG Footnote)
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The federal government in Washington may be loathe to make population policy, but  California’s governor and legislature have shown by their latest enactments on immigration that they have no problem at all with that. Making Population Policy in the Largest State The lawmakers’ priority concern appears to be that the state …
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Overpopulation and Overconsumption: Where Should We Focus? (Revised)
Originally published in 1998, NPG has revised and republished Overpopulation and Overconsumption: Where Should We Focus? by Michael G. Hanauer.  This paper offers a strong argument for U.S. population reduction, which still rings true today. Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. Overpopulation and Overconsumption: Where Should We Focus? An NPG Forum Paper by Michael G. Hanauer We Have So Many Choices There …
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Growth Slows, But No End in Sight in Latest Census Projections
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Census Bureau population projections released in late December 2012 and mid-May 2013 diverge substantially from projections released in 2009. The 2009 projections were based on trends up to 2008, when the U.S. was on the threshold of a crippling recession. All four series released since late 2012 maintain the same methodology, fertility …
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