We 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.
We believe that the optimum rate of population growth is negative.
We believe that the optimum rate of population growth for the United States (and for the world) is negative, until such time as the scale of economic activity – and its environmental effects – is reduced to a level that would be sustainable indefinitely. We are convinced that if present rates of population […]
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version This paper was originally published in July 1992, some 22 years ago…
Download a printable PDF version here New Census Bureau Projections: U.S. Population Will Add 97 Million by 2060 Even with…
Despite global media attention on the problem, there is still no acknowledgment of the clear solution: widespread access to contraception, and smaller family sizes.
On October 27th, two biologists at Australia’s University of Adelaide shocked the global media with their article “Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems,”[…]
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version We originally published this NPG Position Paper in 1999. We have published…
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version We originally published this NPG Position Paper in 2002. We have published…
Thirty four years have passed since, in 1980, NPG published a 62 page booklet that I had written titled, Urgently Needed Now: A National Policy to Reduce U.S. Population. In that small booklet I tried to explain why we at NPG believed that such a policy was urgently needed. […]
With a confused response to the current rising surge of illegal immigration from Central America, Washington’s chronic unwillingness to control…
Exponential growth is the steady growth of anything by a fixed percentage over a period of time. Compound interest on…