Much has been written about the growing level of immigration into the United States over the past two decades.
Continue ReadingPopulation growth only postpones the day of reckoning. According to the Census Bureau’s 1992 most likely “medium”‘ projection, there is the troubling prospect of nearly 400 million Americans by mid-century.
Continue ReadingIn 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus tried to inform “people that a human population, like a population of any other species, had the potential to increase exponentially were it not limited by finite support from its resource base.
Continue ReadingIn 1798, an English clergyman published an essay about human population growth that served to define the terms of debate on this issue for the next two hundred years.
Continue ReadingAlthough the United States is generÂally thought of as a leader in social policy, when it comes to demographic policy the U.S. is well behind much of the rest of the world.
Continue ReadingAround 1969, college and university students deÂveloped a major interest in the environment and, stimuÂlated by this, I began to realize that neither I nor the students had a good understanding of the implications of steady growth, and in particular, of the enormous numbers that could be produced by steady growth in modest periods of time.
Continue ReadingThe post-mortems marking the 25th anniversary of Watergate earlier in 1997 overshadowed another quarter-century milestone of the Richard Nixon era – one of even greater long-term consequences for the nation’s future.
Continue ReadingThere are many pieces to our environmental puzzle, which when assembled can ensure that our planet and everything on it has a joyful ride now and into the indefinite future.
Continue ReadingVery 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.
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