• Donald Mann
• August 3, 2002
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Summary: 1. Economic growth in a finite world, which is the only world we have, is not sustainable. Sustainable economic growth is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms.2. In order to create a sustainable economy we must first discard the goal of macro economic growth and replace it with the goal of …

• Gaylord Nelson
• October 19, 2000
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Forging and maintaining a sustainable society is The Challenge for this and all generations to come. At this point in history, no nation has managed to evolve into a sustainable society. We are all pursuing a self destructive course of fueling our economies by drawing down our natural capital – that is …

• Leon Bouvier
• July 1, 2000
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The U.S. population is too large and is still growing.

• Tim Palmer
• June 19, 2000
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The Fate of America NPG Forum Paper by Tim Palmer June 2000 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version This Forum examines the current levels of destruction of the American environment by our current population growth, fueled by immigration, which continues to devastate our natural resources. Already ninety-eight percent of old growth forests have been destroyed, and a third …

• Gabor Zovanyi
• June 1, 2000
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The last 5 decades of the 20th century represented a period of unprecedented growth in the scale of the human enterprise.

• NPG
• September 20, 1999
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Better Not Bigger by Eben Fodor New Society Publishers, 1999 Reviewed by former NPG Executive Director Sharon McCloe Stein  American attitudes toward growth reflect a great deal of ambivalence.  Many see economic and population growth as good business, more consumers, more workers, more prosperity ÷ a rising tide that lifts all boats.  For …

• Donald Mann
• September 1, 1999
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A short definition of sustainability is the management of environmental and resource systems so that their ability to support future generations is not diminished.

• NPG
• August 1, 1999
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During the 1960s and 1970s, an ideological shift occurred in America with respect to the value of further growth.

• Lindsey Grant
• June 1, 1999
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Peterson calls it “global aging”, but he is really talking about the developed world,* particularly western Europe and Japan.

• NPG
• April 18, 1999
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The Population-Environment Connection: Who Makes It? NPG Special Report by NPG April 1999 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version