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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Humans are Making Oceans Warmer, Deeper, and Life Threatening
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.
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It’s Complicated: The Role of Land in Global Warming
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.
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Mountain West Confronts the Population Pressures of the 21st Century
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
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Population Density Stress Is Killing Us Now!
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.
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The Asylum Crisis: What Can We Do?
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.
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The UN Species Extinction Report: Is It Science, or Something Else?
One million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, endangering ecosystems that people all over
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Telling and Selling the Overpopulation Issue: Why Climate Change Gets So Much More Attention
Abstract: 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
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Global Warming: Has Complacency (Finally) Yielded to Panic?
The 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
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