• Edwin S. Rubenstein
• June 23, 2020
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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

• Michael G. Hanauer
• May 1, 2020
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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

• Edwin S. Rubenstein
• April 28, 2020
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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 …

• Christopher Daly
• April 7, 2020
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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 …

• Edwin S. Rubenstein
• February 4, 2020
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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.

• Edwin S. Rubenstein
• December 17, 2019
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Without oceans, climate change would be much worse. The oceans directly absorb about a quarter of the CO2 humans spew into the atmosphere. They also take over 90% of the heat from global warming, acting as a buffer against even greater warming. But the oceans themselves are in trouble from climate change, as the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) clearly shows.

• Edwin S. Rubenstein
• October 28, 2019
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There they go again: Another massive UN climate change report – 107 authors, from 53 countries, examining 7,000 research articles. Another exercise in denial. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on land, rolled out in Geneva in early August, takes on two questions: how land use contributes to climate change, and how climate change affects land.

• Christopher Daly
• October 1, 2019
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If there is one area in the United States where people treasure their land, it’s America’s Mountain West.

There are eight states that comprise this vast area: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. All of these states are rich with millions of acres of plains, prairies, mountains, valleys, deserts and river canyons that are still

• Greeley (Gregg) Miklashek, MD
• September 3, 2019
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NPG is pleased to present the newest addition to our Forum series, Population Density Stress Is Killing Us Now!, by Dr. Greeley Miklashek. Veteran NPG readers will quickly notice that this is a rather untraditional piece for NPG. We fully recognize that but encourage you to keep an open mind and finish the paper before you reach your conclusions.

• Greeley (Gregg) Miklashek, MD
• August 20, 2019
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On May 13th 1939 a boat carrying 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba. Most of the passengers had applied for U.S. visas, and planned to stay on Cuba until they could enter the United States legally.