Around 1969, college and university students developed a major interest in the environment and, stimulated 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.
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.
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