Will Affluence Ruin the Environment?
If 2020 teaches us anything, it’s that the next crisis is likely right around the corner, and could be prevented, or at least contained, if we act swiftly. A pandemic that scientists long warned was likely to occur, occurred, and has already killed well over 240,000 people in the U.S. Dozens of large wildfires – the latest evidence of the climate emergency – are torching the American
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WHAT GIVES OVERPOPULATION ITS LEGS?
What more can be said about the oppression of overpopulation that I and my colleagues have not pontificated on for decades? Hopefully this cartoon I commissioned from artist Rah Lee of Singapore can help us to understand what forces have allowed us to become overpopulated in the first place.
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Will U.S. Population Fall in 2021?
Three key factors determine the fluctuations in a country’s population: births, deaths, and net immigration. The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting all three in ways that could portend dramatic departures from “normal” population growth scenarios.
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Why Population Really Disappeared from the News and Became Politically Incorrect!
In July, New York Times editor Bari Weiss published a scathing resignation letter to what she called a “once-great” newspaper, accusing the paper of choosing stories to
“satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and to DRAW THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS.” (Emphasis mine.)
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Climate Change, Migration and National Security
As climate change accelerates, as much as one-third of world population could live in places that most humans consider
too hot for habitation. Currently fewer than 25 million people, predominantly in Africa, live in these hot zones, defined as
places where mean annual temperature (MAT) is above 84 degrees Fahrenheit.1 By comparison, Miami’s MAT is a
comparatively “frigid” 74 F.
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CORONAVIRUS AND HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH
WHERE WE ARE, HOW WE GOT HERE, CAN WE RECOVER AND SAVE OUR NATION AND OUR PLANET? An NPG Forum Paper by Michael G. Hanauer
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The True Environmental Disaster – The Silence on Our Growing Overpopulation
WHERE WE ARE, HOW WE GOT HERE, CAN WE RECOVER AND SAVE OUR NATION AND OUR PLANET? An NPG Forum Paper by Michael G. Hanauer
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Human Fertility and Climate Change
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Human Fertility and Climate ChangeAn NPG Forum Paperby Edwin S. Rubenstein April 2020 Thomas Malthus warned that human population growth would outstrip the food supply. That fear largely dissipated when fertilizers, pesticides, and mechanized agriculture lowered the price, and increased the quantity, of foodstuffs. But today the very things that bailed us …
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The Push for Open Borders: The Quest to Destroy America’s Future
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The Push for Open Borders: The Quest to Destroy America’s FutureAn NPG Forum Paperby Christopher J. DalyApril 2020 Does America face a future where a system of ‘open borders’ becomes a reality? That is certainly an ominous question. And while the idea that the majority of U.S. citizens would ever permit an …
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RETHINKING U.S. REFUGEE POLICY
The Trump administration recently announced a number of changes in the nation’s refugee policy. They include a lower cap on refugee admissions, restricting the UN’s roll in selecting refugees, and allowing state and local governments to opt out of the program altogether.
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