Immigration Reduction: Xenophobia and Racism? Or, Common Sense and Pragmatism in a Crowded Nation?
We are forcing wildlife off our planet in three basic ways: with our growing numbers, with our noise, and with our nonsense, defined as a refusal to create policies which follow the logic and the need to scale down the human enterprise.
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Numbers, Noise, and Nonsense: We Must Stop Forcing Wildlife Off the Planet
We are forcing wildlife off our planet in three basic ways: with our growing numbers, with our noise, and with our nonsense, defined as a refusal to create policies which follow the logic and the need to scale down the human enterprise.
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The Point of No Return
After a prolonged wet spell, the “modern megadrought” hit the Southwest in 2000 and 2001, a lingering, uncompromising, monstrous thing, like no drought in centuries.
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Adversity for Biodiversity: A Reflection on My Experience at COP15
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. Adversity for Biodiversity: A Reflection on My Experience at COP15 An NPG Forum Paper by Rob Harding April 2023 Abstract: The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework1 adopted in December 2022 by representatives of most of the world’s national governments is inadequate to halt and reverse the disturbing loss of biodiversity globally. Concerted efforts …
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Modern Megadrought: Population, Denial, and Crisis in the American Southwest
After a prolonged wet spell, the “modern megadrought” hit the Southwest in 2000 and 2001, a lingering, uncompromising, monstrous thing, like no drought in centuries.
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Crowded Classrooms, Teacher Shortages – Demographic Changes Could Help Our Nation’s Troubled Schools, But Only If We Let Them
Schools in thousands of school districts across the country are burdened by too many students and not enough teachers to take care of them all. Classrooms are packed, halls are jammed, and children are forced to stand in the aisles of their school buses.
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The Verdict Is In: To Be Anti-Growth Is to Be Pro-Human
Abstract: Current accusations of injustice and racism against those who work to tame overpopulation and its detrimental effects on the environment, the economy and quality of life are unfounded.
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US Immigrant Population is at a Record High: Ending Remain in Mexico is Only Making It Worse! (An NPG Commentary)
An analysis of the Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) shows that the foreign-born population (legal and illegal) in the U.S. hit 47 million in April 2022 – a record high in American history.
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How Ukrainian Refugees Invaded the U.S. Southwest Border
The U.S. has always been a safe haven for individuals fleeing persecution in their home country. In recent years, however, asylum has become a mass movement, available to any alien claiming persecution on account of race,religion, sexual identity, nationality, or political opinion.
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Japan’s Ride into the Demographic Danger Zone – and Why It’s Nothing to Fear
Japan’s population is falling. This isn’t news to you – almost everyone already knows this. And it isn’t all that unusual – lots of countries are losing population, but the rate at which Japan’s population is contracting is worth noticing.
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