Toward a Stationary U.S. Population (NPG Special Report)
- Leon Bouvier
- July 1, 2000
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The U.S. population is too large and is still growing.
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Continue ReadingThe 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 …
Continue ReadingThe last 5 decades of the 20th century represented a period of unprecedented growth in the scale of the human enterprise.
Continue ReadingClick 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 Ă· a rising tide that lifts all boats. For …
Continue ReadingA short definition of sustainability is the management of environmental and resource systems so that their ability to support future generations is not diminished.
Continue ReadingDuring the 1960s and 1970s, an ideological shift occurred in America with respect to the value of further growth.
Continue ReadingPeterson calls it “global aging”, but he is really talking about the developed world,* particularly western Europe and Japan.
Continue ReadingThe Population-Environment Connection: Who Makes It? NPG Special Report by NPG April 1999 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Illegal immigration, increasingly profitable for powerful interests, has added as many as 12.5 million to the U.S. population since 1960. Ending the flow will demand a national consensus to fully fund enforcement, insulate it from pressures, and mandate electronic verification of work eligibility. The public social costs of illegal settlement must be …
Continue ReadingThe second half of the Twentieth Century was a period of unprecedented and remarkable population growth in the United States.
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