Three key factors determine the fluctuations in a countryās population: births, deaths, and net immigration. The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting all three in ways that could portend dramatic departures from ānormalā population growth scenarios.
Continue ReadingIn July, New York Times editor Bari Weiss published a scathing resignation letter to what she called a āonce-greatā newspaper, accusing the paper of choosing stories to
āsatisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and to DRAW THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS.ā (Emphasis mine.)
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, Miamiās MAT is a
comparatively āfrigidā 74 F.
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
Continue ReadingWHERE WE ARE, HOW WE GOT HERE, CAN WE RECOVER AND SAVE OUR NATION AND OUR PLANET? An NPG Forum Paper by Michael G. Hanauer
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version An 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 out of the Malthusian …
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version An NPG Forum Paperby Christopher J. DalyApril 2020 Does America face a future where a system of āopen bordersā becomes a reality? That is certainly an ominous question. And while the idea that the majority of U.S. citizens would ever permit an open borders policy ā where all who wanted to come …
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration recently announced a number of changes in the nationās refugee policy. They include a lower cap on refugee admissions, restricting the UNās roll in selecting refugees, and allowing state and local governments to opt out of the program altogether.
Continue ReadingWithout oceans, climate change would beĀ much worse. The oceans directly absorb aboutĀ a quarter of the CO2 humans spew into theĀ atmosphere. They also take over 90% of the heatĀ from global warming, acting as a buffer againstĀ even greater warming. But the oceans themselvesĀ are in trouble from climate change, as the latestĀ report from the UNās Intergovernmental Panel onĀ Climate Change (IPCC) clearly shows.
Continue ReadingThere 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 Changeās 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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