The Big Lie of ‘Slow Growth’
When the News Media Analyze Population Growth, ‘Newspeak’ is the Norm – How Else Could Growing by Tens of Millions Be ‘Slow... Read More
‘The Greatest Generation’ of Conservationists Passes On
CAPS Advisory Board Member and Legendary River Conservationist Martin Litton Dies at 97 News anchor and author Tom Brokaw famously wrote of... Read More
Somebody Buys the Environmentalist Case Against Immigration
Staff writer Joshua Keating of the liberal online magazine Slate recently blogged that: “Nobody Buys the Environmentalist Case Against Immigration.” In one... Read More
A regrettable choice of words: An elephant in the room, a straw man or a red herring?
A study recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reached the unsurprising if not... Read More
Population Stabilization No Quick Fix for Environmental Crisis – That’s One Reason it’s Often Overlooked as a Solution
A study recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has generated a lot of... Read More
Drought-Tolerant Landscaping is Part of the Solution to California’s Water Woes, and so is Population Stabilization
Xeriscaping is landscaping with drought-tolerant, preferably native plants. In recent decades, its popularity has grown in the American Southwest as acute water... Read More
Nobody Ever Migrates Because of Overpopulation
Sewage drains from a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a fast-growing megacity. Source: GlobalPost In his classic and provocative 1971 essay in the... Read More
Playing With Fire: More People, More Houses and Drier Climate = More Megafires
PDF Download: issues_fire_oct_2014_final.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow October 2014 “The new normal” is a term we hear all too... Read More
Dark Skies Disappearing
Light pollution and population After my first visit as a 10-year old kid to see dinosaur fossils at the Carnegie-Mellon Museum in... Read More
Ebola and Overpopulation
American medical history was made on Tuesday, September 30, when it was announced that the first case of Ebola has now been... Read More