The Wall Street Journal on April 1st ran a page one lead story about the promise of the new Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland (“Politics, Money and Nature Had Kept Vast Deposit on Ice,” by Staff Reporter Allana Sullivan).
Continue ReadingCelebrating the Bicentennial of Malthus’ Original Population Essay The 200th Anniversary of one of the most provocative essays in the history of Western thought is upon us, the original edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, first published in 1798. This important essay first identified the geometric role of natural population increase in outrunning …
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The nation grows, but public and political interest in the consequences is close to negligible. That inattention makes the issue more, not less, important. What is here proposed is the use of a systematic foresight process — a “Sustainability Project” — to bring population growth back into the national debate by publicizing …
Continue ReadingClick 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 …
Continue ReadingRoy 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 …
Continue ReadingSooner 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.
Continue ReadingTwo years ago the world badly needed William Hollingsworth’s tough-minded but humane prescription for urgent reduction of human fertility.
Continue ReadingChina is not just an example of an industrializing nation.
Continue ReadingThe 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.
Continue ReadingIt 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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