Sustainability, Part I: On the Edge of an Oxymoron
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The term “sustainable development” has become fashionable, but it is regularly used in the sense of “sustainable growth,” a self-contradictory concept beloved by those who want to continue at the same old stand growth as a solution to all problems and yet couch it in terms that will not offend environmentalists. The …
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The Case Against Immigration (NPG Book Review)
Roy Beck The Case Against Immigration New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1996. Journalist, immigration scholar and active protestant layman, Roy Beck is pro-immigrant but anti-immigration- at least immigration at its present level of one million-plus yearly. His book is a powerful case against today’s mass immigration that is compassionate, racially-sensitive but not racist, and profoundly moral. Steering clear of …
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HUDDLED EXCESSES (NPG Footnote)
Sooner or later America must face reality. It is going to be painful. … What America is fighting is a piece of poetry. … The poetry is thrilling.
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Ending the Explosion: Population Policies and Ethics for a Humane Future (NPG Booknote)
Two years ago the world badly needed William Hollingsworth’s tough-minded but humane prescription for urgent reduction of human fertility.
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CHINA AS AN “EMERGING” NATION
China is not just an example of an industrializing nation.
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Population and The PCSD (NPG Booknote)
The PCSD has completed its report on sustainability in America, to almost total press and public silence, and so quietly that it took multiple ‘phone calls to the White House to find anybody who knew what it was.
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A TALE OF TEN CITIES
It often seems as though the dispute about immigration’s impact on America involves endless debate over statistics — whose are right and whose are wrong.
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IT’S TIME TO STOP AT TWO
In recent months, the American public has awakened to the fact that our country is becoming more overcrowded than ever.
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The Pope’s Visit: Is Mass Immigration a Moral Imperative? (NPG Footnote)
Pope John Paul H’s visit to the United States in October was a critical stage in the lobbying campaign for high immigration that the U.S. Catholic hierarchy has waged for three decades.
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Political Asylum: Achilles’ Heel of Immigration Control
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version by David Simcox Immigration of 1.1 million persons a year perpetuates population growth and dims prospects for a smaller, environmentally sustainable U.S. population. Since the 1970s the vast majority of Americans have voted by their fertility rates to stabilize population. But immigration has nullified their choice. Humanitarian immigration — refugees, asylees and …
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