Very few writers seem to recognize that growth cannot continue forever in a limited space, and that mathematical truism applies to the real world, today.
Continue ReadingThe United Nations a year ago distributed its periodic population projection World Population Prospects. The 1996 Revision.
Continue ReadingThe United Nations is a good place to observe the “zip re-pop” phenomenon.
Continue ReadingControversy over U.S. immigration policy is by no means new to the political landscape.
Continue ReadingProposals relating to a “U.S. population policy” are circulated from time to time and several have been circulated in 1997.
Continue ReadingWho faces the brightest quality-of-life prospects for the year 2100: Japan with a population projected to decline by nearly 60 percent, or the United States, whose 1997 population of 267 million will nearly triple to 750 million (en route to a billion) if present levels of migration and fertility continue?
Continue ReadingThe NRC has released the executive summary of a report on the economic, demographic, and fiscal effects of immigration.
Continue ReadingThe Wall Street Journal on April 1st ran a page one lead story about the promise of the new Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland (“Politics, Money and Nature Had Kept Vast Deposit on Ice,” by Staff Reporter Allana Sullivan).
Continue ReadingCelebrating the Bicentennial of Malthus’ Original Population Essay The 200th Anniversary of one of the most provocative essays in the history of Western thought is upon us, the original edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, first published in 1798. Â This important essay first identified the geometric role of natural population increase in outrunning …
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The nation grows, but public and political interest in the consequences is close to negligible. That inattention makes the issue more, not less, important. What is here proposed is the use of a systematic foresight process — a “Sustainability Project” — to bring population growth back into the national debate by publicizing …
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