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.
Continue ReadingOn 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.
Continue ReadingOne million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, endangering ecosystems that people all over
Continue ReadingAbstract: Search the literature; read the news; comb the mission statements and recommendations of various environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and it will become obvious how climate change
Continue ReadingThe summer of 2018 was a moment when the ecological future became our present reality. A heatwave baked the entire Northern Hemisphere, killing dozens from Quebec to Japan. In Europe, nuclear power plants shut down because river water that cools their reactors was too warm. The most destructive wildfires in California’s history turned more than a million acres to ash, while a study in the journal PLOS Medicine projected a five-fold rise i
Continue ReadingWe originally published this NPG Position Paper in 1999. We have published it again because we believe that the problems it addresses are still very much with us, and that our recommended solutions are as pertinent now as they were then.
Continue ReadingFor most of human history population growth and economic growth have moved in tandem. As humans invented agriculture (several times over a period of centuries, according to some archeologists) they managed to produce more food than they could consume.
Continue ReadingIf you are driving down a road at 60 miles an hour and suddenly notice that you are headed straight for a tree, it is good to know this so that you can do something about it. Information about the future we are headed for as a planet is readily available, and makes it clear that it is filled with dangers we can do something about.
Continue ReadingUnlike other advanced industrial countries U.S. population continues to increase, mainly because of immigration. That is a well-known fact. Not nearly so well-known is the role of Sub-Saharan immigrants in driving U.S. population growth. The overall growth of this population has been nothing short of extraordinary:
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The human population on Earth has quadrupled in the past century. It is degrading the capability of Earth’s natural systems to support us. Mathematically, that astonishing growth must stop. How it will stop, and at what level and condition, is thoroughly obscure, but there are changes afoot….
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