Life Expectancy Drives U.S. and World Population Growth
Ironically, Johnson’s historical narrative starts at a moment in time when it seemed people would never “stop dying.” In September 1918, a flu virus began spreading through Camp Devon, a crowded military base outside Boston. By the end of the second week, one in five soldiers came down with the illness. But the real shock, as described in the camp physician’s notes, was its lethality: “It is only a matter of a few hours then until death comes,” he wrote. “It is horrible. One can stand it to see one, two or 20 men die, but to see these poor devils dropping like flies sort of gets on your nerves. We have been averaging about 100 deaths per day.”
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Will 2022 Be the First Year of U.S. Negative Population Growth?
Annual population growth in the United States now stands at a record low. Will COVID-19 send it into early reverse? It’s possible, though far from certain. On December 21, the Census Bureau reported that the United States’ population expanded by just 0.1% last year,
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On the Wrong Track: Why the Endangered Species Act Isn’t Enough
I know many people who care deeply about wildlife. Thanks to their efforts, the Bald Eagle, the Peregrine Falcon, the Trumpeter Swan, the Brown Pelican and others have made impressive recoveries, but not without a lot of effort and expenditure. Their future is not secure, and the rates of extinctions are accelerating at a rapid pace.
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How Covid, Climate, The Cartels Reshape U.S. Refugee Policy
The coronavirus pandemic has had far reaching consequences for the global economy, obliterating millions of jobs. And it has affected developing countries disproportionately, setting back decades of progress. So, it’s hardly surprising that agents at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 have stopped people from more than 160 countries, a geography that roughly coincides with countries hard hit by the virus.
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The New York Times’ Readers Want to Re-Write the Paper’s Gloomy Narrative on Population Decline
The New York Times can make a claim to be the nation’s most influential newspaper. With over 5 million subscribers, it has wide influence not only on the decisions of policymakers, but in setting cultural trends and serving as a weathervane for its readership, which skews younger than other print media. 91% of Times readers are Democrats, vs. 7% who are Republican.1
Although the paper’s famous slogan is “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” there are some perspectives which…
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Don’t Call It a Crisis: The Natural Explanation Behind Collapsing Birth Rates
Americans are having far fewer children than in the past, as a recent report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows. The media has declared this a “crisis” that demands government attention. In reality, the plummeting birth rate is a natural and inevitable result of overpopulation and overcrowding. Science has already proven this. Therefore, the only correct action U.S. policymakers should take is no action whatsoever.
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The Global Gag Rule: A Lesson in Unintended Consequences
A deadly pandemic. Record unemployment amidst a collapsing economy. Illegal immigrants surging across the southwestern border. Racial fears and animosity tearing much of the country apart. Not since FDR have so many mega-crises confronted a new President on his inauguration day.
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Yale Researchers Debunk the Myth of 11 Million Illegal Immigrants
Call any journalist, lobbyist, activist, or reasonably well-informed citizen – in red state or blue – and ask: a. How many illegal immigrants live in the U.S.?, and b. What is the source of your number? Almost without exception he or she will answer a. 11 million, and b. The Pew Research Center.
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Doctors Take Responsibility For Overpopulation, Again
Doctors and Overpopulation was established in 1972 in the United Kingdom. The organization’s mission statement, published simultaneously in the British Medical Journal and The Lancet, declared: “It is right that we as doctors should be especially concerned about the world population crisis. In the first place we bear some
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A Message Called “Covid-19”
I am a retired physician and COVID-19 survivor, and I am here to deliver a message contained in the heart of this pandemic. I am also the author of Stress R Us, a PDF of which is contained in the MAHB.stanford.edu e-library, and also a Cassandra, sounding the clarion call initially delivered by Paul R. Ehrlich in his prescient 1968
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